(a) The State Board of Education shall meet a minimum of six (6) times annually.
(b) In any of its meetings before the end of the calendar year, the state board shall determine the meeting dates for the following year.
(c)
(1) Special meetings may be called by the chair of the state board with no less than twenty-four (24) hours notice to the members and the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and with timely responses from enough state board members that they will attend the meeting so as to indicate that a quorum will be present.
(2) In the absence of the chair, the commissioner shall call a meeting on the request of three (3) members of the state board with the same notice and response requirements.
(3) If both the chair and the commissioner shall be absent or refuse to call a meeting, any three (3) members of the state board may call a meeting by utilizing the same notice and response requirements in notifying the members and the office of the commissioner.