year.] The following provisions shall apply to the dissolution
of the School Reform Commission:
(1) The Secretary of Education shall, within ten (10) days
of the effective date of this paragraph, issue a declaration to
dissolve the School Reform Commission. The dissolution
declaration shall be effective at the end of the 2014-2015
school year.
(2) [Except as otherwise provided in this section, after]
After dissolution of the School Reform Commission the board of
school directors established in accordance with the provisions
of section 696.1 shall have the [powers and] duties of the
School Reform Commission.
(3) Upon the effective date of the dissolution declaration,
the provisions of subsections (a), (b), (b.1), (b.2), (c), (e),
(h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (n.1) and (n.2) shall expire.
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Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 696.1. School Board in Distressed School
Districts.--(a) Each distressed school district in a city of
the first class shall have a twelve (12) member school board
with taxing power. There shall be eleven (11) elected school
board members, one (1) elected from each city council district
and one (1) elected from the city at large. There shall be one
(1) school board member appointed by the mayor of the city of
the first class who shall have no voting rights.
(b) Odd-numbered districts shall elect school board members
for two (2) year terms beginning in 2015. Even-numbered
districts shall elect school board members for one (1) year
terms in 2015 and for two (2) year terms beginning in 2016. The
at-large school board member shall be elected for a two (2) year
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