A. A charter for a charter school district may be renewed for successive periods of five years each.
B. Before it submits an application for renewal to the department, the local school board shall hold a public hearing to adopt a resolution approving the application for renewal.
C. A charter school district renewal application submitted to the department shall contain:
(1) a report on the progress that the charter school district has made toward achieving the goals of its charter;
(2) a petition in support of the charter school district renewing its charter school district status signed by not less than sixty-five percent of the employees in the charter school district;
(3) a resolution by the local school board requesting renewal of the charter; and
(4) any other information that the department deems appropriate.
History: Laws 2005, ch. 292, § 6; 2015, ch. 58, § 12.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the Public Education Department Act, see 9-24-1 NMSA 1978.
The 2015 amendment, effective June 19, 2015, removed provisions relating to adequate yearly progress; and in Subsection C, deleted former Paragraphs (2) and (3), relating to lists of schools that have made adequate yearly progress and lists of schools that have not made adequate yearly progress, and redesignated the succeeding paragraphs accordingly.