79-2112. Elementary learning center; elementary learning center executive director; qualifications; assistants and employees.

(1) Elementary learning centers shall serve as visionary resource centers for enhancing the academic success of elementary students, particularly those students who face challenges in the educational environment due to factors such as poverty, limited English skills, and mobility. Each learning community coordinating council shall provide for a system of elementary learning centers to be administered by an elementary learning center executive director.

(2) The elementary learning center executive director shall be appointed by the learning community coordinating council. The executive director shall be a person well equipped to work with populations in poverty and to analyze effective methods for assisting and encouraging such populations to access the programs offered by elementary learning centers. The elementary learning center executive director shall receive such salary as is set by the learning community coordinating council.

(3) The elementary learning center executive director may select, appoint, and compensate as he or she sees fit, within the amount provided by the learning community coordinating council, such noncertificated assistants and noncertificated employees as he or she deems necessary to discharge the responsibilities under sections 79-2112 to 79-2114. Such assistants and employees shall be subject to the control and supervision of the elementary learning center executive director.

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