§ 16-77.4-1 Entities eligible to apply to become a mayoral academy. – (a) A "mayoral academy" means a charter school created by a mayor of any city or town within the State of Rhode Island, acting by or through a nonprofit organization established for said purpose (regardless of the time said nonprofit organization is in existence), which enrolls students from more than one city or town including both urban and non-urban communities and which offers an equal number of enrollments to students on a lottery basis; provided, further, that such mayoral academies shall have a board of trustees or directors which is comprised of representatives from each included city or town and is chaired by a mayor of an included city or town. For purposes of this chapter the term "mayor" shall include any elected town administrator.
(b) No child shall be required to attend a mayoral academy
nor shall any teacher be required to teach in a mayoral academy. The school
committee of the district in which a mayoral academy is located shall make
accommodations to facilitate the transfer of students who do not wish to
participate in a mayoral academy into other public schools. It shall also make
accommodations for those students who wish to transfer into the mayoral academy
as space permits. If the total number of students who are eligible to attend
and apply to a mayoral academy is greater than the number of spaces available,
the mayoral academy shall conduct a lottery to determine which students shall
be admitted.
(P.L. 2010, ch. 84, § 6; P.L. 2010, ch. 107, § 6.)