New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 80 - ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION - CHARTER SCHOOLS › Part 4 - CHARTER SCHOOL APPLICATION AND APPEAL REQUIREMENTS › Section 6.80.4.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
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 application requesting the
				establishment of either a locally chartered or state-chartered charter
				school.
C.
"Authorizer"
means either a local school board or the commission
				that permits the operation of a charter school.
D.
"Charter school"
means a
				conversion school or startup charter school authorized by a chartering
				authority to operate as a public school.
E.
"Chartering authority"
means
				either a local school board or the commission that permits the operation of a
				charter school.
F.
"Commission"
means the public education commission.
G.
"Conversion school"
means an
				existing public school within a school district that was authorized by a local
				school board or the commission to become a charter school prior to July 1, 2007
				.
H.
"Days"
means,
				unless otherwise specified in a provision in this rule or applicable statute,
				business days when the period referenced is 10 days or less, and calendar days
				when the period referenced is 11 days or more. In computing the amount of days,
				exclude the day of the event that triggers the period, and include the last day
				of the period. If the last day is a day when the department is closed, the
				period continues to run until the end of the next business day that the
				department is not closed. Whenever a person or entity shall act under this rule
				within a prescribed period after service of a notice or paper upon the person
				or entity, and the notice or paper is served by mail or courier service, three
				calendar days are added to the prescribed period.
I.
"Division"
means the charter
				schools division of the department.
J.
"Governing body"
means the
				governing structure of a charter school as set forth in the charter school's
				charter
K.
"Head
				administrator"
means the duly licensed school administrator who is the
				director of the charter school, which is the person with duties similar to that
				of a superintendent as set forth in Section
				22-5-14
				NMSA 1978.
L.
"Locally
				chartered charter school"
means a charter school authorized by a local
				school board.
M.
"MEM"
means membership, which is the total enrollment of qualified students on the
				current roll of a class or school on a specified day.
N.
"Organizer"
means one or more
				persons or entities who seek to arrange, form, or otherwise establish a charter
				school.
O.
"Prospective
				applicants"
means one or more teachers, parents, or community members or
				a public post-secondary educational institution or nonprofit organization who
				submits a notice of intent to a chartering authority.
P.
"Secretary"
means the New
				Mexico secretary of public education.
Q.
"Start-up charter school"
means a public school developed by one or more parents, teachers, or community
				members who applied to and were authorized by a chartering authority to become
				a charter school.
R.
"Special
				education plan"
means a comprehensive written design or method that
				includes specific details on how the charter school shall:
(1) utilize state and federal funds to
				provide children with disabilities a free and appropriate public education, in
				accordance with applicable law;
(2)
				provide educational services, related services, and supplementary aids and
				services to children with disabilities in accordance with each child's
				individualized education program; and
(3) address a continuum of alternative
				educational placements to meet the needs of students with disabilities, in
				accordance with applicable law.