Title 15 — Education

A. A person who is a qualified elector of this state under section 16-121 in the boundaries of the school district twenty-nine days immediately preceding the election is qualified to vote at an election of the school district in the precinct in which he is registered. For the pur…

A qualified elector of a school district, who meets the requirements may vote by early ballot.

A. The county school superintendent shall cause notices of a special election except a bond election to be posted at least ninety days previous to the date of the election. The notices shall be posted in at least three public places in the school district. One notice shall be pos…

A. In school district elections held at a time and place other than general elections, at least twenty days before the school district election the county school superintendent or other authority conducting the election shall appoint for each election precinct or combination of p…

At all school elections the polls shall be open during the same hours as are applicable to general elections. The inspector and two judges shall determine when the hour for opening and closing the polls has arrived. A voter within the polling place at the closing of the polls sha…

A. The cost of all special elections provided in this title, including the preparation of ballots, shall be charged against the funds of the school district or districts involved. B. The county school superintendent shall contract with the board of supervisors for holding regular…

The governing body of a school district may choose to use either electromechanical or electronic vote recording and ballot counting equipment, or paper ballots for any special election held pursuant to this chapter.

A. The governing body of a school district shall be a governing board. There shall be three governing board members, except as otherwise provided by this section and section 15-425, subsection A. B. The governing body of a high school district shall be a governing board composed …

A. Nominating petitions shall be filed with the county school superintendent as prescribed by title 16, chapter 3. Nominating petitions shall be signed by a number of qualified electors of the district as provided in section 16-322. Nominating petitions for persons seeking to fil…

A. By the fifth day preceding the elections for membership on school district governing boards the county recorder shall prepare from the original affidavits of registration at least four printed or typed lists of all uncanceled registrations of each school district in the county…

A. A regular election shall be held for each school district at the time and place, and in the manner, of general elections as provided in title 16. B. Except as provided in subsection C of this section and sections 15-429 and 15-430, the term of office for each member shall be f…

A. A qualified elector of a school district may submit to the county school superintendent a petition, signed by not less than ten per cent of the qualified school electors of the district, requesting the county school superintendent to call a special election to determine whethe…

A. A qualified elector of a school district that qualifies under subsection B of this section may submit to the county school superintendent a petition, signed by at least ten percent of the qualified electors of the district, requesting that the question of reducing the number o…

A. The officers of a special election shall, as soon as the polls are closed, tally the votes cast, enclose one list of the persons voting and one copy of the tally sheet in a cover and seal and direct the cover and its contents to the county school superintendent. The inspector …

A. The members of the governing board of a union high school district shall be qualified school electors of the district. Members shall be elected from the union high school district at large except as provided in section 15-431. B. The term of office of the members of the union …

A. Members of the governing board of a union high school district shall be elected at the time and place and in the manner that members of other school districts are elected, as nearly as is practicable, except as provided in section 15-427, subsection B. B. Election officers sha…

A. A joint common school district shall be governed by a board of five members, one of whom shall reside in and be elected from each of the counties comprising the district and the remaining number shall reside in the district and be elected at large unless the district has imple…

A. If school districts are consolidated as provided in section 15-459, the terms of the governing board members of the previously existing school districts do not expire on the effective date of the consolidation and continue until January 1 following the next general election, d…

A. If, for the prior school year, a school district had an average daily membership of at least one thousand and the total minority enrollment in the district, as reported to the department of education, was at least twenty-five per cent of the total enrollment of the district, t…

A. The bases of the educational organization of the county and state are the school districts as defined in section 15-101. Existing districts shall be continued, and new districts may be formed as provided in this title. B. Each school district shall be designated as school dist…

A. The county school superintendent, on or before December 1 each year, shall file with the board of supervisors and the county assessor a transcript of the boundaries of each school district within the county. The boundaries shown in the transcript shall become the legal boundar…

A. New common school districts may be formed in unorganized territory on presentation to the county school superintendent of a petition which: 1. Is signed by the parents or guardians of at least ten pupils. Persons who sign the petition shall: (a) Be residents of the proposed ne…

A. Two or more adjoining school districts jointly having a student count of at least two hundred pupils and an assessed valuation of at least $2,000,000 may unite and form a union high school district. A union high school district may not be formed of territory already embodied i…

The governing board of a common school district that is located within a high school district shall notify and obtain permission from the governing board of the high school district before taking any action that results in the expansion or reduction of the common school district'…

A. The county school superintendent, on receiving notification from the state school superintendent pursuant to section 15-825.02, subsection B, shall do all of the following before calling an election: 1. Establish the boundaries of the proposed school district, taking into cons…

The state board of education may grant permission to the governing board of a common school district to offer instruction in high school subjects, grades nine through twelve, except that the state board shall not grant permission if the qualified electors of a common school distr…

A. Before a common school district offers instruction in grade nine pursuant to section 15-901, subsection A, paragraph 3, subdivision (b), the common school district governing board shall: 1. Conduct a preliminary vote at a public meeting to consider the question of offering ins…

A. One or more common school districts and a high school district with coterminous or overlapping boundaries may establish a unified school district pursuant to this section. Unification of a common school district and a high school district is not authorized by this section if a…

A. A common school district having a student count of at least two hundred pupils and an assessed valuation of at least $2,000,000, by a majority vote of the qualified school electors of the school district, may establish a unified school district with boundaries coterminous with…

A. Notwithstanding any other statute, a new joint unified school district may be formed if the formation is approved by the state board of education and if the following requirements are met: 1. The boundaries of the proposed new joint unified school district include an incorpora…

A. If the election results in the formation of the joint unified school district, the governing board shall contain the same governing board members of the former school district governing boards. The members shall have authority to adopt a budget and perform such other functions…

A. Joint common school districts may be created lying in part in each of two or more counties in the manner set forth in this article. Except as expressly provided in this title, each such district shall have all powers and duties and shall be operated and maintained and shall fo…

Joint unified school districts or joint high school districts may be created lying in part in each of two or more counties in the same manner as joint common school districts may be created under this article, except as expressly provided in sections 15-450 and 15-451. Except as …

A. A petition for the creation of a joint common school district shall include the following: 1. A description of the territory comprising the proposed district. 2. A request that the question of the creation of the proposed district be submitted to the qualified electors residin…

A. The county of jurisdiction of the proposed joint common school district is that county in which the greater portion of the qualified electors of the proposed joint common school district resides, unless all of the existing school buildings located on territory which will be wi…

A. Any territory incorporated into a joint common school district which is at the time of the creation of such joint common school district part of an existing school district shall thereafter be considered detached from the existing school district. B. If any such existing schoo…

A. In a school district containing a student count of more than six hundred, a new school district or districts may be formed by a subdivision of the existing school district. B. On the request of the governing board or on receipt of petitions bearing the signatures of at least t…

A. On the request of the governing boards of two or more school districts in the same county or in adjacent counties or on receipt of petitions bearing the signatures of ten percent or more of the number of qualified electors who voted in whichever of the last two general electio…

A. On request of the governing board of a school district or on receipt of a petition bearing the signatures of ten per cent or more of the qualified electors residing in the school district to change the boundaries of the school district in such a manner as to include adjacent u…

A. If a school district does not offer a full-time instructional program in any grade level to the pupils who reside in that school district, transports all of the pupils who reside in that school district to an adjacent school district or school districts for instruction and tra…

A. A high school district, or union high school district, any portion of which is contiguous to a military reservation, may at any time, and as provided in subsection B, annex all or any contiguous part of said military reservation for high school purposes only. B. When a majorit…

When a common school district or a high school district adjacent to or embracing all or a portion of a military reservation has a larger school population than it had the previous year, as shown by a census enumeration certified by the county school superintendent, and it is not …

A. Upon the withdrawal of a military reservation from any common school district or high school district, as provided in section 15-464, and upon a showing by the military authorities that necessary buildings and facilities for the operation of a school are available, the county …

A. Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of an accommodation school located on a military reservation shall be composed of: 1. Two members who are appointed by the county school superintendent. 2. Two members who are appointed by the commanding officer of the militar…

A. Facilities, if possible, and pupils of an existing accommodation school operated pursuant to this section and sections 15-464 and 15-465 may be included in the most accessible adjacent school district as directed by majority vote of the board of supervisors of the county in wh…

A. When all the common school districts comprising a union high school district unite, either by annexation or by consolidation, into one common school district, the union high school district shall, as of the first day of the next fiscal year, be deemed to be dissolved, and the …

A. If in a common school district there has been a student count of less than eight pupils between the ages of six and twenty-one years for one school year the county school superintendent may suspend the common school district and report the suspension and reasons to the common …

A. If a proposed budget of a school district exceeds the aggregate budget limit for the budget year, at least ninety days before the proposed election the governing board shall order an override election to be held on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as pr…

A. An additional budget increase may be requested and authorized as provided in section 15-481, subsections I and J of up to five per cent of the revenue control limit as provided in subsection B of this section. B. The maximum amount of the budget increase requested and authoriz…

1. To locate or change the location of school buildings. 2. To purchase or sell school sites or buildings or sell school sites pursuant to section 15-342 or to build school buildings, but the authorization by vote of the school district shall not necessarily specify the site to b…