Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part CXXXIX - Bulletin 126-Charter Schools › Chapter 21 - Charter School Governance › Section CXXXIX-2101 - Board of Director Composition

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				The members of the board of directors shall receive no compensation other than
				reimbursement of actual expenses incurred while fulfilling duties as a member
				of such a board.
B. A charter
				school shall be prohibited from employing, in any manner, any member of the
				governing or management board of such school.
C. Not more than 20 percent of the members of
				any governing or management board of a charter school shall be members of the
				same immediate family. Members of the same immediate family shall include a
				board member and any other board members to whom he is related as defined in
				R.S.
				42:1102(13) and any other
				board members to whom any of them are so related.
D. Beginning October 1, 2018, the membership
				of the governing or management board of each charter school located in a parish
				with a population between 325,000 and 375,000 persons, based on the most recent
				federal decennial census, shall include at least one member who is a parent,
				legal guardian, or grandparent of a student enrolled in the charter school or
				an alumnus of the school, who may be appointed or elected.
E. Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year,
				at least 60 percent of the governing or management board of each charter
				school, other than a type 2 charter school, located in a parish with a
				population of between 325,000 and 375,000 persons census, shall be residents of
				the parish in which the charter school is located.
F. Board of Director Composition for
				BESE-Authorized Charter Schools
1. The board
				of directors of each charter operator shall consist of no fewer than seven
				members. Should a board have fewer than seven members due to the resignation or
				other loss of one or more board members, the board shall have 90 calendar days
				after such loss to appoint one or more replacements.
2. The board of directors of each charter
				operator should consist of members with a diverse set of professional skills
				and practical work experience in the areas of education, public/non-profit
				and/or for-profit administration or operations, community development, finance,
				and law.
3. The board of directors
				of each charter operator should be representative of the community in which the
				charter school is located and no fewer than 60 percent of its members shall
				reside in the community in which the charter school is located.
Community
, for the purposes of this Paragraph, shall consist
				of the parish in which the school is located and immediate neighboring parishes
				and, for type 2 charter schools, any parish that is included in the charter
				school's attendance zone. No fewer than 60 percent of the members of the board
				of directors of any charter operator that operates multiple schools in
				different communities shall reside in the communities in which the charter
				schools are located, with equal representation from each community to the
				greatest extent possible.
4. The
				board of directors of each charter operator shall consist of no more than one
				person from the same immediate family, as defined by the
Code of
				Governmental Ethics
.