New Mexico Administrative Code

This regulation governs the procedures for the adoption, purchase, and delivery of instructional material in compliance with the Braille Access Act, Sections 22-15-26 to 22-15-31 NMSA 1978, through provision of alternate accessible format materials and incorporates the federal st…

A. "Alternate accessible format" as used in the Braille Access Act has the same meaning as "specialized formats" as used in the IDEA and both terms mean one of several alternatives to traditional printed instructional materials, including but not limited to Braille, audio or digi…

A. The department adopts the NIMAS for the purpose of providing print instructional materials in alternate accessible or specialized formats to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner. B. In consultation with representatives from educational inst…

A. An educational institution is not required to coordinate with the NIMAC. If the educational institution chooses to coordinate with the NIMAC, the educational institution shall acquire instructional materials in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as provided in …

Public Education Department

This rule governs the procedures for the allocation, distribution and use of funds to purchase materials for school libraries.

This rule is promulgated pursuant to Sections 9-24-8 and 22-15C-1 et seq. NMSA 1978.

Permanent

May 15, 2006, unless a later effective date is cited at the end of a section.

This rule is designed to facilitate the allocation, distribution and use of funds to purchase materials for school libraries.

A. "Additional student" means a student in the certified forty-day membership of the current year for a school district, charter school or state institution above the number certified in the forty-day membership of the prior year for the school district, charter school or state i…

A. The department will administer the provision of the School Library Material Act [22-15C-1 to 22-15C-10 NMSA 1978] as follows: (1) allocate and distribute money to school districts, charter schools and state institutions from the fund to pay for the cost of purchasing school li…

A. A school district, charter school or state institution shall purchase school library material as an agent for the benefit of students entitled to the free use of school library material. B. A school district, charter school or state institution is responsible for circulation o…

Public Education Department, hereinafter the department.

A. A charter may be approved for an initial term of six (6) years, provided that the first year shall be used exclusively for planning and not for completing the application. The planning year shall be the fiscal year in which the charter is authorized, beginning on the July 1 da…

A. For charter schools approved prior to July 1, 2010, prior to the end of its planning year, a newly authorized charter school shall demonstrate to the authorizer that its facilities meet the educational occupancy standards required by applicable New Mexico construction codes. F…

A. Local school boards may approve the establishment of charter schools to be located in their respective school districts. The commission may approve the establishment of a charter school to be located anywhere in the state. B. An applicant shall apply to only one chartering aut…

A. The governing body of a charter school seeking to renew its charter shall file its renewal application with a chartering authority no earlier than 270 days prior to the date the charter expires. Commencing with any charters that are due to expire at any time after January 1, 2…

A. Right of appeal. A charter applicant may appeal to the secretary from any chartering authority decision denying a charter school application, revoking or refusing to renew a previously approved charter, or imposing conditions for approval or renewal that are unacceptable to th…

A. The secretary, on the secretary's own motion, may review a chartering authority's decision to grant a charter. B. Within ten (10) days after the secretary moves to review, the secretary shall issue an appropriate order establishing procedures for the chartering authority and t…

A. Within ninety (90) days of approval of its charter application, the governing body of a state-chartered charter school shall file a separate application with the commission seeking approval as a board of finance. This deadline may be extended by the commission for good cause s…

A. Upon approval by the commission, a state-chartered charter school may operate as the New Mexico school for the arts ("the school"), which shall be a statewide residential charter school for grades nine through 12 offering intensive preprofessional instruction in the performing…

A. A charter school offering or seeking to offer distance learning courses to students shall comply with 6.30.8 NMAC. B. Any charter school offering or seeking to offer distance learning courses in New Mexico pursuant to the Charter Schools Act, Sections 22-8B-1 et seq. NMSA 1978…

A. For purposes of compliance with Section 22-8B-11 NMSA 1978, the first five-year period shall be deemed to have ended in 2003 and the successive five-year periods begin in 2003. B. If by October 1, the chartering authorities have authorized more charter schools than permitted b…

This rule shall apply to applicants and operators of start-up charter schools and previously authorized conversion schools.

Any part of this rule found by adjudication before a competent tribunal to be contrary to law shall be stricken without affect to the remainder.

Sections 9-24-8, 22-2-1, 22-2-2, 22-8-1 et seq., and 22-8B-1 et seq. NMSA 1978.

Permanent

June 29, 2007, unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

To establish the initial application and renewal process for charter schools, whether locally or state chartered, the appeal process of charter schools to the secretary of education and the secretary of education's review process.

A. "Applicant" means one or more teachers, parents, or community members or a public postsecondary educational institution or nonprofit organization who submits an initial or renewal application to a chartering authority. B. "Application for start-up charter school" means an appl…

A. The organizers of a proposed charter school shall provide a signed written notification to the commission and the school district in which the charter school is to be located of the organizers' intent to establish a charter school. The date for submitting a notice shall be no …

A charter school application shall be a proposed agreement between the chartering authority and the charter school and shall include the following: A. The mission statement of the charter school; B. The goals, objectives, and student performance outcomes to be achieved by the cha…

Public Education Department, hereinafter the department.

A. Annually no later than July 1, each charter school shall ensure the department receives a record of attendance and completion for all governing body members who served on the governing body in the prior fiscal year. The record of attendance and completion may be provided eithe…

A. No source, individual, or entity may provide governing body training, as defined in the charter schools act, unless it is an approved provider providing a designated curriculum with a designated facilitator. The approved provider may provide, as governing body training, only t…

A. Annually no later than July 1, each approved provider shall submit a report to the department on all trainings provided during the prior fiscal year and all planned or proposed dates to provide training in the upcoming year.(1) For each training provided in the prior fiscal ye…

A. Any approved provider may have that approval suspended or revoked for the following reasons: (1) Failure to timely provide the reporting identified in 6.80.5.12 NMAC, including: (a) annual reports; or (b) reports of trainings that will be provided that were not identified in t…

This rule shall apply to all charter schools.

Section 22-8B-5.1, NMSA, 1978

Permanent

July 25, 2017 unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

To establish the mandatory training course requirements for all governing body members.

A. "Applicant" means a source, individual, or entity that has submitted an application to the department for approval to provide governing body training. B. "Approved provider" means a source, individual, or entity approved by the department to provide governing body training tha…

A. Within the first fiscal year of service, each new governing body member shall complete a governing body training course that consists of, at a minimum, 10 hours of governing body training provided by approved providers. B. The department shall provide guidance that identifies …

A. Unless exempted from specific hourly training requirements as described below, each governing body member continuing to serve on a governing body beyond the end of their first fiscal year of service shall annually complete a governing body training course that consists of, at …

(Reserved.)

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