2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 79-1210 — State Board of Education; grant or deny petition; criteria.

Section 79-1210
State Board of Education; grant or deny petition; criteria.

The State Board of Education shall grant or deny any petition to change educational service unit boundaries based upon the following criteria:

(1) The educational needs of students in the affected school districts and the affected educational service units;

(2) The economic viability of the proposal as it relates to affected established educational service units or affected proposed educational service units;

(3) Any community of interest among affected school districts and affected educational service units;

(4) Geographic proximity as such would affect the ability of affected educational service units to deliver service in a cost-effective manner; and

(5) In the dissolution of one or more entire educational service units, evidence of consent from each educational service unit board and two-thirds of the school boards or boards of education of member school districts representing a majority of students in each affected educational service unit.

Source:

Laws 1987, LB 688, § 6

R.S.1943, (1994), § 79-2202.07

Laws 1996, LB 900, § 927

Laws 1997, LB 806, § 59

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska