S.F. No. 0073            State-federal partnership schools.

Sponsored by: Select Committee On Tribal Relations

AN ACT relating to public schools; authorizing partnership agreements between the state and federal government for school districts providing educational programs and services to school age children; incorporating such districts into the state school system subject to conditions and exclusions; imposing duties on the state superintendent; prescribing duties and granting authority to partnership districts; establishing district governance through a board of trustees; prohibiting local taxation; subjecting partnership districts to uniform state educational program requirements and to student performance, accountability and high school graduation requirements; including districts in the state system of school finance, state retirement and school building maintenance; excluding partnership district buildings from state programs and oversight; conforming statutory provisions accordingly; appropriating funds and directing the state superintendent to commence specified agreements; and providing for effective dates.

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