Chapter 72, SCHOOLS

72-525. Qualifications of candidates for elective office upon transfer. When a transfer of school territory is effective for election purposes as provided in K.S.A. 72-523, any elector residing in the territory transferred shall be entitled to be a candidate for and hold office i…

72-526. Receiving district takes property in territory transferred; assumption of bond debt; tax levy. On the effective date of any transfer of school territory, the right to possession of and the title to all school buildings, furnishings, and school tangible personal property l…

72-527. Agreements to adjust claims. The boards of education of the receiving district and of the giving district may enter into a written agreement, which shall include the provisions of K.S.A. 72-526 and 72-528, and may further provide for an adjustment of the claims of the res…

72-528. Payments to defray cost of education of transferred pupils; determination by state board of education; appeals. Whenever any transfer order issued under the authority of K.S.A. 72-532 shall provide for the transfer of territory in excess of one square mile, or any territo…

72-529. Litigation of claims; judgments. In the event of a failure or inability of the boards to make an agreement as provided in K.S.A. 72-527, or if the state board shall disapprove any such agreement, the board of either district or the boards of both districts, either jointly…

72-530. Transfer of territory; mediation process. (a) The state board, in accordance with this section, shall implement procedures to allow districts to discuss any proposal for the transfer of territory pursuant to K.S.A. 72-521 et seq., and amendments thereto, through a mediati…

72-531. Same; judgments; tax levy, use of proceeds. If a judgment is entered as provided in K.S.A. 72-7106, the clerk of the district court shall certify to the county clerk the amount due from one district to the other. The county clerk shall annually levy a tax of not to exceed…

72-532. Authorization to transfer school territory; agreement of boards of education; petition by one board; approval by state board; criteria to be considered; procedure; limitations. (a) Transfers of territory from one unified district to another unified district shall be made …

72-533. Official school district boundaries; certification to county officers. Once each year, as of the thirty-first day of December, the state board of education shall prepare and issue orders describing the boundaries of school districts which have been altered by land transfe…

72-534. Amendatory and supplementary orders of state board; district organization; territory transfers; boundary descriptions. The state board may make and issue amendatory or supplementary orders at any time to correct errors, supply detail, clarify or complete any transfer or o…

72-634. Petition by board of education; order by state board; effective dates. (a) Any unified school district may be disorganized under the following circumstances in the manner provided in this act. Upon petition of the board of education of any unified school district for the …

72-635. Petition for disorganization by electors; approval by election; order for disorganization; effective dates; bond proceeds; limitations on time and frequency of elections hereunder. (a) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, whenever a petition signed by a n…

72-636. School district disorganization; contracts for maintenance and operation authorized, conditions; certain contracts void. The board of education of a school district disorganized under the provisions of this act may enter into contracts necessary for maintenance and operat…

72-637. Disorganization and attachment to one other district; board of education initiates procedure; approval by election; approval by other board of education; bonded indebtedness option; effective dates; procedure hereunder alternative to other procedures. (a) A school distric…

72-638. Disorganization and attachment to more than one district; board of education initiates procedure; approval by election; approval by other boards; bonded indebtedness option; effective dates; procedure hereunder alternative to other procedures. (a) A school district may be…

72-639. Unexpended bond funds of disorganized districts; use of funds; investment of funds. The proceeds of any bonds of any school district disorganized under the provisions of either K.S.A. 72-7304 or 72-7305, which proceeds are not encumbered by contractual obligations of such…

72-640. Hearings by hearing officers authorized but not required. For the purpose of affording a hearing upon any matter provided in this act to be determined by the state board of education when such determination requires exercise of substantial discretion by the state board of…

72-641. Equitable payments between unified school districts. (a) Where a unified district acquires a school building of a divided disorganized district and the bonded indebtedness for such building is only partly paid, the unified district acquiring such building may either pay t…

72-642. Budget and certification of tax levies to pay certain bond issues; option of boards of education. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of K.S.A. 72-67,106, the board of education of any unified school district may elect to budget and certify tax levies for the retirement…

72-708. Agreements to consolidate authorized. In accordance with the provisions of this act the boards of education of any two or more school districts are hereby authorized to discuss issues relating to consolidation of such districts and enter into agreements to form one consol…

72-709. Same; required contents. (a) Any agreement entered into under authority of this act shall specify the following: (1) The home county of the consolidated unified school district. (2) The date of election for approval thereof. (3) The method of election and voting plan. (4)…

72-710. Agreements to consolidate school districts; approval by state board; election. Agreements to consolidate under authority of this act shall provide that such agreement shall be of no force or effect unless first approved by the state board and is thereafter approved at a s…

72-711. Election for approval; who entitled to vote; proposition; conduct. The territory of the consolidated unified school district shall be all of the territory of the school districts being consolidated. The territory of the school districts being consolidated may be noncontig…

72-712. Order establishing new school district. Before any consolidated unified school district is finally approved under this act, the results of the election shall be certified by the county election officer in accordance with the determination of the county board of canvassers…

72-713. Election of board of education after consolidation. If the proposition to consolidate is approved as provided in K.S.A. 72-711, the election of board members at the next following school election shall be by the method of election and voting plan provided in the agreement…

72-714. Bonded indebtedness assumed, unless otherwise agreed. Upon the consolidation of school districts the consolidated unified school district shall assume and agree to pay all of the bonded indebtedness of the former school districts of which it is comprised, unless the agree…

72-715. Transfer of assets to new school district; debt liability. The assets of the school districts being consolidated shall be transferred to the consolidated unified school district on a day agreed upon in the consolidation agreement but not sooner than the first day of the f…

72-716. Consolidated districts; temporary board of education; powers. (a) If the proposition to consolidate school districts is approved as provided in K.S.A. 72-711, and amendments thereto, the temporary board of education specified in the agreement pursuant to K.S.A. 72-709, an…

72-1072. Status of boards of education of unified school districts. The governing body of a unified school district is and shall be a board of education composed of seven (7) members, except as is specifically otherwise provided in K.S.A. 72-1210. The members may be elected by an…

72-1073. Application of law to board of education members; interim terms; appointment of successors; time. The provisions of law relating to the term of office of members of boards of education, including method and time of qualification and of taking office shall apply to every …

72-1074. Equivalent names for election methods and voting plans of unified school districts. It is hereby found, determined and required that: (a) Every unified school district which now has the "six-member election" which was provided for in former K.S.A. 72-6745 shall be govern…

72-1075. Member position numbers; certain members district numbers. (a) Every holdover member having a member position number on the effective date of this act shall, after the effective date of this act, have such member position number assigned to his member district. (b) In ev…

72-1076. Certain member district numbers. (a) In every unified school district which on the effective date of this act had the "six-member election" provided for in K.S.A. 72-6745 (which is repealed by this act), each member district shall retain the same number. (b) In every uni…

72-1077. Board member district boundaries; adjustment. (a) (1) Except as provided by paragraph (3), the board of education of any school district may change the boundaries of board member districts, if any, within the school district at any time the board determines such change i…

72-1081. Right to change voting plan or method of election; mandatory election. Any board may change the method of election or voting plan in its school district from that which it now or hereafter has to any combination of method of election and voting plan provided for by this …

72-1082. Plan of change; contents. Any board desiring to change its method of election or its voting plan, or both, shall first prepare a plan of change showing the following: (a) The territory, numbering and estimated population of each of the proposed member districts into whic…

72-1083. Voting plans; who may vote under each. Subject to the limitations provided in this act, any of the three voting plans described in this section may be used in the election of board members. The three voting plans are: (a) Voting plan-A: All electors, who are otherwise qu…

72-1084. Plan of change when district method proposed. The following conditions shall apply to every plan of change in which the proposed method of election is a district method: (a) The proposed member districts shall (1) each be comprised of one contiguous compact area, (2) hav…

72-1085. Determination to change method of election or voting plan, how made; board of education resolution and approval by election; alternative procedure by petition and election. Determination of a school district to change from one method of election to another or from one vo…

72-1086. Petition for change of method of election or voting plan; procedure and requirements; approval by state board of education. (a) Ten or more electors of any school district may prepare a plan of change showing the information required by K.S.A. 72-1082, and amendments the…

72-1087. Election requirements for change in method of election. In the event that an election is to be called as determined in subsection (a) of K.S.A. 72-1085, or subsection (c) of K.S.A. 72-1086, in not less than forty-five (45) days and not more than sixty (60) days the count…

72-1088. Time when change of method of election or voting plan may be made. The issue of the change of method of election or voting plan, or both, in any school district may be submitted to voters at any primary election or general election as defined in K.S.A. 25-2502, and amend…

72-1089. Member districts, numbering; members, residence. When a school district has a member district method of election the unified school district shall be divided into two member districts for the two district method, into three member districts for the three district method,…

72-1091. Number of members; qualifications. The board of education of any unified school district established under the provisions of this act shall have seven (7) members as herein provided. Subject to K.S.A. 72-1093, two members of the board of education shall be nominated and …

72-1092. Same; change of member district boundaries. The territory and boundaries of member districts shall be changed no more than once annually in accordance with this section. The board of education of such unified school district shall on or before December 31 of each year ad…

72-1093. Same; addition of sixth member district, when. In the event that a new senior high school is constructed in such unified school district, the board of education of the unified school district shall provide for a sixth member district to be numbered "six," and one member …

72-1131. Unified school districts; style, designation and powers; delegation of contractual power to superintendent, limitation. Each unified school district shall be designated by the name and style of "unified school district No. ______ (the number designated by the state board…

72-1132. Name and style of unified districts. Notwithstanding any provision of K.S.A. 72-516 or 72-517 or any statement in any organization order, the name and style of every unified district shall be "unified school district No. ____, __________ county, state of Kansas." History…

72-1133. Boards of education; president and vice-president; election; terms of office; duties. (a) At the first meeting of the board of education on or after the second Monday in January of each year, or at a later meeting during that calendar year if so determined by the board a…

72-1134. Superintendent of schools; assistant superintendents; supervisors; principals; appointment and powers. (a) The board of education of each school district shall appoint a superintendent of schools for a term of not more than three (3) years. The board may appoint one or m…