New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 67 - SCHOOL PERSONNEL - HIRING AND TERMINATION
Part 3 - TERMINATION OR DISCHARGE OF LICENSED SCHOOL PERSONNEL WHEN REDUCTION IN PERSONNEL IS REQUIRED
Section 6.67.3.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Department" means the public education department (PED).

B. "Discharge" means the act of severing the employment relationship prior to the expiration of the current employment contract.

C. "Local school board" or "board" means the governing body of a school district or charter school.

D. "School district" means an area of land established as a political subdivision of the state for the administration of public schools and segregated geographically for taxation and bonding purposes.

E. "Terminate" means, in the case of a licensed school employee, the act of reemploying an employee for the ensuing school year.