A. The local school board of a school district with a total MEM of greater than thirty thousand shall develop a school-based budgeting plan for all schools in the district for presentation to the legislative education study committee by October 15, 1993. The plan shall describe the means by which teachers, parents and administrators will participate in the development of school-based budgets.
B. In those school districts with a total MEM of greater than thirty thousand each individual school may voluntarily submit to the local school board a school-based budget based upon the projected total MEM at that school and the projected number of program units generated by students at that school. If an individual school submits such a budget, the local school board may include it in the budget submission to the department required pursuant to the Public School Finance Act.
History: Laws 1993, ch. 224, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the public education department, see 9-24-4 NMSA 1978.