Key Votes
SB 2293 - Allowing "Under-Performing" Schools to Become Charter Schools - Key Vote
Mississippi Key Votes
Stages
- April 27, 2010 Executive Signed
- March 27, 2010 House Conference Report Adopted
- March 27, 2010 Senate Conference Report Adopted
- March 17, 2010 Senate Concurrence Vote Failed
- March 9, 2010 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 9, 2010 Senate Bill Passed
- Jan. 7, 2010 Introduced
Family
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - April 27, 2010
Title: Allowing "Under-Performing" Schools to Become Charter Schools
Signed by Governor Haley Barbour
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (House) (85-31) - March 27, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Allowing "Under-Performing" Schools to Become Charter Schools
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report that allows parents of public school students enrolled in "chronically under-performing" schools to petition to convert such schools into charter schools, and establishes a process by which public schools that are considered "failing" for a specified period of time shall become "new start" schools under the administration of the Mississippi Recovery School District.
Highlights:
-Allows a public school that has been designated as "low-performing," "at-risk," or "failing" for 3 consecutive years, as determined by the State Department of Education, to become a conversion charter school upon approval of a petition and conversion plan by more than 50 percent of the families of the students and subsequent approval by the State Board of Education, among other requirements (Sec. 7)
-Allows parents and guardians of the students, upon approval of a conversion charter school petition, to select certain parents and guardians to serve on the conversion charter school's local management board, which shall have authority to make certain decisions for the school, including, but not limited to, selecting a person to be employed as the principal, selecting licensed teachers who are qualified under the No Child Left Behind Act, and determining the salaries of those teachers (Sec. 7).
-Specifies that the initial contract issued by the State Board of Education for a conversion charter school shall be for a minimum of 3 years, and specifies that the contract may be renewed on a one-year or multi-year basis, not to exceed 3 years, if approved by a majority vote of the parents and guardians (Sec. 11).
-Allows the State Board of Education to approve up to 12 conversion charter schools in the state during a period of 6 years (with no such schools authorized to begin operations before July 1, 2013), and prohibits more than 3 conversion charter school from being approved in each congressional district (Sec. 13).
-Establishes the New Start School Program, under which public schools that are considered "failing" for 3 consecutive years shall become "new start" schools administered by the Mississippi Recovery School District (Sec. 1).
-Allows the State Board of Education to grant a one-year delay of the deadline on which a school must become a "new start" school if it determines that "circumstances merit giving the school an additional year to achieve academic improvement" (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (Senate) (27-11) - March 27, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Allowing "Under-Performing" Schools to Become Charter Schools
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report that allows parents of public school students enrolled in "chronically under-performing" schools to petition to convert such schools into charter schools, and establishes a process by which public schools that are considered "failing" for a specified period of time shall become "new start" schools under the administration of the Mississippi Recovery School District.
Highlights:
-Allows a public school that has been designated as "low-performing," "at-risk," or "failing" for 3 consecutive years, as determined by the State Department of Education, to become a conversion charter school upon approval of a petition and conversion plan by more than 50 percent of the families of the students and subsequent approval by the State Board of Education, among other requirements (Sec. 7)
-Allows parents and guardians of the students, upon approval of a conversion charter school petition, to select certain parents and guardians to serve on the conversion charter school's local management board, which shall have authority to make certain decisions for the school, including, but not limited to, selecting a person to be employed as the principal, selecting licensed teachers who are qualified under the No Child Left Behind Act, and determining the salaries of those teachers (Sec. 7).
-Specifies that the initial contract issued by the State Board of Education for a conversion charter school shall be for a minimum of 3 years, and specifies that the contract may be renewed on a one-year or multi-year basis, not to exceed 3 years, if approved by a majority vote of the parents and guardians (Sec. 11).
-Allows the State Board of Education to approve up to 12 conversion charter schools in the state during a period of 6 years (with no such schools authorized to begin operations before July 1, 2013), and prohibits more than 3 conversion charter school from being approved in each congressional district (Sec. 13).
-Establishes the New Start School Program, under which public schools that are considered "failing" for 3 consecutive years shall become "new start" schools administered by the Mississippi Recovery School District (Sec. 1).
-Allows the State Board of Education to grant a one-year delay of the deadline on which a school must become a "new start" school if it determines that "circumstances merit giving the school an additional year to achieve academic improvement" (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Failed (Senate) - March 17, 2010
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (89-29) - March 9, 2010
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (29-19) - Feb. 9, 2010
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 7, 2010
Title: Creation of Charter Schools
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Terry W. Brown (MS - R)
- Terry Clark Burton (MS - R)
- Fredie Videt Carmichael (MS - R)
- Lydia Graves Chassaniol (MS - R)
- Eugene Singleton 'Buck' Clarke (MS - R)
- George T. 'Tommy' Dickerson (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- William Gardner 'Billy' Hewes III (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Billy Hudson Sr. (MS - R)
- Dean Kirby (MS - R)
- Perry E. Lee (MS - R)
- Chris McDaniel (MS - R)
- J. Walter Michel (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- T.O. 'Tommy' Moffatt (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick Alan Nunnelee (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Giles K. Ward (MS - R)
- Lee Yancey (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
