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Home » US Law » 2022 New Hampshire Revised Statutes » Title XV - Education » Title 195-A - Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (Area) Schools

Section 195-A:1 – Definitions.

    195-A:1 Definitions. – The terms used in this chapter shall be construed as follows, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context: I. "School district" shall mean a town school district, a special school district, a cooperative school district, an incorporated school district operating within a city, and a city […]

Section 195-A:11 – Special Aid to Small Area High Schools.

    195-A:11 Special Aid to Small Area High Schools. – In certain areas of the state where due to sparsity of population and distance between centers of population, an area high school cannot be established to serve as many school districts or pupils as would otherwise be standard, the receiving districts in any such small […]

Section 195-A:12 – Enlargement of Authorized Regional Enrollment Area.

    195-A:12 Enlargement of Authorized Regional Enrollment Area. – I. The school board of a school district located in proximity to an authorized regional enrollment area, which did not join the plan when it was initially established, may petition the school board of the receiving district of such area to join the area plan. Thereupon […]

Section 195-A:13 – Addition of New Grades to Area Plan.

    195-A:13 Addition of New Grades to Area Plan. – Whenever several school districts have adopted and established an authorized regional enrollment area plan as provided in this chapter but have not applied such plan to all grades of elementary and secondary schools in the area, they may subsequently extend such plan to all or […]

Section 195-A:14 – Review of Area Plan and Withdrawal of Districts.

    195-A:14 Review of Area Plan and Withdrawal of Districts. – I. After the third anniversary of the date of operating responsibility, if requested by either a sending or receiving district governing body, an area school plan review board shall be established. The review board shall consist of 3 members from the school board of […]

Section 195-A:15 – Conversion of Area School Plan to Cooperative School District.

    195-A:15 Conversion of Area School Plan to Cooperative School District. – I. The school districts comprising an authorized regional enrollment area plan may convert the plan to a cooperative school district as provided in RSA 195:18 upon the expiration of 5 years after date of operating responsibility, and thereafter. Provided, however, that, if such […]

Section 195-A:16 – Modification.

    195-A:16 Modification. – Parties to any authorized regional area agreement may, either at the time of the original agreement, or at any subsequent modification of the agreement, specify that the agreement shall cover less than 100 percent of the student population of the sending district. In the event that a chartered public school is […]

Section 195-A:2 – Policy and Standards.

    195-A:2 Policy and Standards. – I. It is the purpose of this chapter to increase educational opportunities within the state by encouraging the establishment of area schools in the receiving districts which will serve the receiving district and the sending districts throughout a natural social and economic region which has an adequate minimum taxable […]

Section 195-A:3 – Procedure.

    195-A:3 Procedure. – I. Any town, city or special school district pursuant to an article in the warrant for any annual or special meeting may vote to create an area school planning committee consisting of 3 qualified voters of whom at least one shall be a member of the school board. The members of […]

Section 195-A:4 – Application of School Laws.

    195-A:4 Application of School Laws. – An area school shall be maintained and operated by the receiving district and its school board in accordance with all the general school laws applicable to schools of the grades which it includes, except only as otherwise provided in this chapter. The receiving district shall be obligated to […]

Section 195-A:4-a – Exception.

    195-A:4-a Exception. – Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any agreement between a receiving district and a sending district, the school board of a receiving district and the school board of a sending district may mutually agree upon a showing of hardship by pupils from a sending district to exempt such pupils from […]

Section 195-A:5 – Joint School Board Meetings.

    195-A:5 Joint School Board Meetings. – The state board shall cause to be held, at reasonable intervals, at the request of a school board or school boards of the receiving or sending district, or on its own motion, a joint board meeting of the school boards of all school districts in the authorized regional […]

Section 195-A:6 – Area School Property.

    195-A:6 Area School Property. – The legal title to, and administration of, an area school building, land and equipment, shall be vested in the receiving district, but it shall hold such property in trust for the benefit of all the school districts in the authorized regional enrollment area, as their respective equitable interests therein […]

Section 195-A:7 – Construction of Area Schools.

    195-A:7 Construction of Area Schools. – The construction of an area school including the purchase of school buildings, the construction of additions or alterations to existing buildings, the required new construction of such facilities during the life of the plan, the equipment thereof, and necessary land acquisition therefor, shall be the responsibility of the […]

Section 195-A:9 – Discontinuance of Schools Replaced by an Area School.

    195-A:9 Discontinuance of Schools Replaced by an Area School. – Upon the date of operating responsibility of an area school, the school buildings of the various sending districts and receiving district which formerly served the same grades as the area school and have been rendered surplus thereby under the approved plan, shall automatically be […]