Section 16-6D-7
Equal opportunity for applicants.
The State Board of Education and the State Department of Education shall ensure equal opportunity for all school systems that apply for programmatic flexibility or budgetary flexibility, or both, as delineated in this chapter, and in no way shall one local school system be favored over another local school system based upon its size, location, student population, or any other possible discriminatory measure.
(Act 2013-64, p. 112, §7.)