The board of education of any school district may authorize the establishment of a nonsectarian charter school as a means of providing new opportunities for:
- (a) Improved pupil learning;
- (b) increased learning opportunities for pupils in special areas of emphasis in accord with themes established for charter schools;
- (c) creative and unconventional instructional techniques and structures;
- (d) new professional vistas for teachers who operate such schools or who choose to work in them; and
- (e) freedom from conventional program constraints and mandates.
L. 1994, ch. 289, § 2; L. 2002, ch. 80, § 3; July 1.