Texas Education Code - EDUC § 12.152. Authorization

(1) a public senior college or university for an open-enrollment charter school to operate on the campus of the public senior college or university or, subject to Subsection (b), at another location in any county in this state;  or

(2) a public junior college for an open-enrollment charter school to operate on the campus of the public junior college or in the same county in which the campus of the public junior college is located.

(1) the locations of existing open-enrollment charter schools, as appropriate, to avoid duplication of services in the area in which the applicant proposes to operate the school;  and

(2) the need of the community in the area in which the applicant proposes to operate the school to have an additional open-enrollment charter school.