Vote to pass a bill that amends charter school laws.
Highlights:
Authorizes a district to increase a its total charter tuition payments above 18 percent of its net school spending as follows (Secs. 33 & 46):
In fiscal year 2018, up to 19 percent;
In fiscal year 2019, up to 20 percent;
In fiscal year 2020, up to 21 percent;
In fiscal year 2021, up to 22 percent; and
In fiscal year 2022, up to 23 percent.
Requires charter school applicants to meet the following criteria (Sec. 35):
The school enrolls students using an opt-out admissions lottery process, without any required application process; or
The school’s primary purpose is to establish education programs for “at-risk” students and have at least 75 percent of students enrolled qualify as “at-risk” students.
Authorizes the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate schools, on the basis of student performance data, other than a Horace Mann charter school, as a “challenge, underperforming, or chronically underperforming school” (Sec. 1).
Requires a challenge school’s committee and local teachers union to meet to negotiate a waiver agreement to permit the implementation of a turnaround plan, and requires the superintendent to convene a local stakeholder group to develop the turnaround plan for the school (Sec. 1).
Specifies that the turnaround plan may include certain provisions that authorize the superintendent to take certain steps including, but not limited to, the following steps (Sec. 1):
Expand, alter, or replace the curriculum and programs offered by the school;
Reallocate the uses of the existing budget of the school;
Limit, suspend, or change 1 or more school district policies; and
Add pre-kindergarten and full-day kindergarten classes.
Vote to pass a bill that amends charter school laws.
Highlights:
Authorizes a district to increase a its total charter tuition payments above 18 percent of its net school spending as follows (Secs. 33 & 46):
In fiscal year 2018, up to 19 percent;
In fiscal year 2019, up to 20 percent;
In fiscal year 2020, up to 21 percent;
In fiscal year 2021, up to 22 percent; and
In fiscal year 2022, up to 23 percent.
Requires charter school applicants to meet the following criteria (Sec. 35):
The school enrolls students using an opt-out admissions lottery process, without any required application process; or
The school’s primary purpose is to establish education programs for “at-risk” students and have at least 75 percent of students enrolled qualify as “at-risk” students.
Authorizes the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate schools, on the basis of student performance data, other than a Horace Mann charter school, as a “challenge, underperforming, or chronically underperforming school” (Sec. 1).
Requires a challenge school’s committee and local teachers union to meet to negotiate a waiver agreement to permit the implementation of a turnaround plan, and requires the superintendent to convene a local stakeholder group to develop the turnaround plan for the school (Sec. 1).
Specifies that the turnaround plan may include certain provisions that authorize the superintendent to take certain steps including, but not limited to, the following steps (Sec. 1):
Expand, alter, or replace the curriculum and programs offered by the school;
Reallocate the uses of the existing budget of the school;
Limit, suspend, or change 1 or more school district policies; and
Add pre-kindergarten and full-day kindergarten classes.