2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 17:3982 — Local school boards; duties

§3982.  Local school boards; duties

A.(1)(a)  Local school boards shall comply with R.S. 17:3983 and shall review and formally act upon each proposed charter within thirty days of its submission and in the order in which submitted. In doing such review, the local school board shall determine whether each proposed charter complies with the law and rules, whether the proposal is valid, complete, financially well-structured, and educationally sound, and whether it offers potential for fulfilling the purposes of this Chapter.

(b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph, school boards which govern a local system that has been declared to be in academic crisis, as defined in R.S. 17:10.6, shall not consider, review, or act upon charter applications for a Type 1 charter school and shall notify the proponents of any pending Type 1 charter proposal or any newly submitted Type 1 charter proposal that the board is ineligible to act on such applications and that each such application may, therefore, be submitted to the state board as a Type 2 proposal pursuant to R.S. 17:3983(A)(2)(a)(ii).

B.  Local school boards shall make available to chartering groups any vacant school facilities or any facility slated to be vacant for lease or purchase at fair market value.  In the case of a type 2 charter school created as a result of a conversion, all property within the existing school shall also be made available to that chartering group under similar terms. If such facilities were constructed at no cost to the local school board, then such facilities including all equipment, books, instructional materials, and furniture within such facilities shall be provided to the charter school at no cost.

Acts 1995, No. 192, §1, eff. June 14, 1995; Acts 1997, No. 447, §1, eff. June 30, 1997; Acts 1999, No. 14, §1; Acts 1999, No. 757, §1, eff. July 2, 1999; Acts 2005, No. 35, §1, eff. Nov. 30, 2005.