N.M. Admin. Code § 6.80.5.9 - MANDATORY GOVERNING BODY TRAINING COURSE CONTINUING GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS
A. Unless
exempted from specific hourly training requirements as described below, each
governing body member continuing to serve on a governing body beyond the end of
their first fiscal year of service shall annually complete a governing body
training course that consists of, at a minimum, eight hours of governing body
training provided by approved providers. The department shall provide guidance
that identifies specific standards within each area; however, applicants may
identify additional standards within each area to address the needs of
individual governing bodies and governing body members. The continuing
governing body training shall include:
(1) one
hour of training on public official/charter school governing body ethics and
responsibilities;
(2) three hours
of training on charter school fiscal requirements;
(3) two hours of training on understanding
and evaluating academic data;
(4)
one hour of training on open government, legal, and organizational performance
requirements and
(5) one hour of
training on equity and culturally and linguistically responsive
practices.
B. Governing
body members who have served on a governing body beyond the end of their first
fiscal year of their service may be exempted from specific hourly training
requirements based on the school's fiscal performance.
(1) For any school that has received an
unmodified annual audit in each of the past three years with no material
weaknesses, no multi-year repeat findings, no significant deficiencies, and
that has received no more than two compliance findings in the current year, the
school's governing body member shall be exempted from one of the two hours of
required training relating to charter school fiscal requirements.
(2) The department shall annually identify
the schools that are eligible, under the criteria established above, to claim
an exemption for their governing body members.
C. The mandatory governing body training
course shall be completed in one or multiple sessions during the fiscal
year.
D. The mandatory governing
body training course may not consist of any of the same governing body training
that was completed by the governing body member in any of the prior years of
the same contract term as long as additional governing body training is
available.
E. Annually, the
governing body training in each of the areas identified above shall be related
to specific areas of growth within each area for individual governing bodies or
governing body members based on the annual governing body evaluation.
F. If a governing body member who is no
longer in the first fiscal year of his or her service on the governing body
resigns his or her term prior to the end of the fiscal year, the hours required
for that fiscal year shall be prorated based on the number of full and partial
months during which the governing body member served and rounded to the nearest
full hour.
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