Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

§ 22-12A-5 NMSA 1978

Public school attendance

Known as the Attendance for Success Act

The act spans §§ 22–22 (14 sections).

Laws 2019, ch. 223, § 5.

A. Local school boards may admit as students school-age persons who do not live within the school district to the public schools within the school district when there are sufficient school accommodations to provide for them.

B. Local school boards may allow students to transfer to a public school outside the student's attendance zone but within the school district when there are sufficient school accommodations to provide for them.

C. Local school boards shall charge a tuition fee for the right to attend public school within the school district to those school-age persons who do not live within the state. The tuition fee shall not exceed the amount generated by the public school fund for a student similarly situated within the school district for the current school year.

D. When the parent of a student not living in the state pays an ad valorem property tax for school purposes within a school district, the amount of the tuition payable for the school year shall be reduced by the district average ad valorem tax per student as determined by the ad valorem tax credit used in calculating the state equalization guarantee distribution.

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.