The local school board may operate a public school or the school district under a variable school calendar. The state board [department] shall develop criteria for the establishment of a variable school calendar in a school district. Those criteria shall include a requirement that the local school board demonstrate substantial community support for implementation of the variable school calendar.

History: 1953 Comp., § 77-22-4, enacted by Laws 1972, ch. 16, § 4; 1993, ch. 24, § 1; 2003, ch. 153, § 61.

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Laws 2004, ch. 25, § 27, provided that all references to the superintendent of public instruction shall be deemed references to the secretary of public education and all references to the former state board of education or state department of education shall be deemed references to the public education department. See 9-24-15 NMSA 1978.

The 2003 amendment, effective April 4, 2003, deleted "request" from the end of the section heading; deleted "of any school district" following "school board" near the beginning, deleted "adopt by resolution a request to the state board for approval to" following "may" near the beginning, inserted "a public school or the school district" following "operate" near the middle, and deleted the last sentence.

The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted "board" for "department of education" in two places in the first sentence; added the second and third sentences; and made a minor stylistic change.