§ 821. School district to maintain public elementary schools or pay tuition (a) Each school district shall maintain one or more approved schools within the district in which elementary education for its resident students in kindergarten through grade six is provided unless: (1) the electorate authorizes the school board to provide for the elementary education […]
§ 822. School district to maintain public high schools or pay tuition (a) Each school district shall maintain one or more approved high schools in which high school education is provided for its resident students unless: (1) the electorate authorizes the school board to close an existing high school and to provide for the high […]
§ 822a. Public high school choice (a) Definitions. In this section: (1) “High school” means a public school or that portion of a public school that offers grades 9 through 12 or some subset of those grades. (2) “Student” means a student’s parent or guardian if the student is a minor or under guardianship and […]
§ 823. Elementary tuition (a) Tuition for elementary students shall be paid by the district in which the student is a resident. The district shall pay the full tuition charged its students attending a public elementary school. If a payment made to a public elementary school is three percent more or less than the calculated […]
§ 824. High school tuition (a) Tuition for high school students shall be paid by the school district in which the student is a resident. (b) Except as otherwise provided for technical students, the district shall pay the full tuition charged its students attending a public high school in Vermont or an adjoining state or […]
§ 825. Maximum tuition rate; calculated net cost per pupil defined (a) Calculated net cost per pupil for purposes of this chapter shall be defined by the Secretary. Expenditures shall include those for equipment and school building construction, additions, or renovations. Expenditures excluded shall be: (1) transportation costs incurred by the receiving school district for […]
§ 826. Notice of tuition rates; special education charges (a) A school board, or the board of trustees of an independent school meeting education quality standards, that proposes to increase tuition charges shall notify the school board of the school district from which its nonresident students come, and the Secretary, of the proposed increase on […]
§ 827. Designation of a public high school or an approved independent high school as the public high school of a school district (a) A school district not maintaining an approved public high school may vote on such terms or conditions as it deems appropriate, to designate three or fewer approved independent or public high […]
§ 828. Tuition to approved schools; age; appeal A school district shall not pay the tuition of a student except to a public school, an approved independent school, an independent school meeting education quality standards, a tutorial program approved by the State Board, an approved education program, or an independent school in another state or […]
§ 829. Prekindergarten education (a) Definitions. As used in this section: (1) “Prekindergarten child” means a child who, as of the date established by the district of residence for kindergarten eligibility, is three or four years of age or is five years of age but is not yet enrolled in kindergarten. (2) “Prekindergarten education” means […]
§ 834. Duty of care (a) Each school district and its employees owe its students a duty of ordinary care to prevent the students from being exposed to unreasonable risk, from which it is foreseeable that injury is likely to occur. (b) School districts and their employees do not owe their students a duty of […]
§ 835. Lemington, Bloomfield, Brunswick, Granby, Guildhall, and Maidstone; tuitioning of elementary students The Lemington, Bloomfield, Brunswick, Granby, Guildhall, and Maidstone school districts may provide for the elementary education of the students residing in their districts by paying tuition to public elementary schools in the State of New Hampshire. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 823 […]
§ 836. Tuition overcharge or undercharge (a) Annually, on or before November 1, the Secretary shall inform each school board of a receiving public school, each board of trustees of a receiving approved independent school for which the Secretary has calculated a net cost per pupil, and each sending school district in Vermont of the […]
§ 837. School facilities management; training and certification (a) The Secretary of Education, in consultation with facilities management industry and school operations experts, shall establish guidelines for the training and certification of each person designated as responsible for facilities management for a school district or supervisory union. (b) The superintendent for each school district or […]
§ 838. Capital improvement plan (a) Each school district shall develop and maintain a five-year capital operations and improvement plan for the school district and supervisory union, which shall be updated annually. (b) The capital operations and improvement plan described in subsection (a) of this section shall be in a form developed and prescribed by […]
