P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 143k
The school charter is the official document upon, which the agreement by virtue of which a school of the Public Education System is granted the status of community school, is based. Said agreement shall be signed by the Secretary, as party of the first part, and by the school, as party of the second part, as represented by its Director and the Chairperson of the School Council. [The charter shall be displayed in prominent areas of the school.] The charter shall include objectively measurable and verifiable expectations regarding the quality and effectiveness of the teaching process in the school, such as retention, graduation and university admission rates, among others, which may serve as guidelines for the parents, the persons in charge of the students and the students themselves to be able to determine the desirability of enrolling and remaining in said school.
The charter shall acknowledge the academic, fiscal and administrative autonomy of the school; prescribe the commitment of the teachers to practice the teaching profession so that the purposes set forth in § 143a of this title as the objectives of the Public Education System may be fulfilled; commit the Director and the School Council to promoting and maintaining a sound environment for learning that will allow the orderly development of the school; and spell out in detail the obligations of the latter towards its students and the community.
The charter shall furthermore commit the Director to observe sound management practices and standards for the administrative and academic endeavors of the school as well as to implement the legal and regulatory provisions that lend coherence to the Public Education System.
History —July 15, 1999, No. 149, § 2.09.