With the passage of Prop. 51 by California voters last November, $ 500 million in funding is now available for charter school projects under the Charter School Facilities Program. (ccsa.org)
So they moved from outright hostility to a highly conditional embrace, with the National Education Association beginning its own charter school project in 1996 (and subsequently abandoning it). (educationnext.org)
The ECIDA has a track record of supporting charter school projects, previously approving tax abatements for five others, including Enterprise Charter School which started off as a tenant of the agency at its Oak Street campus and recently purchased its portion of the site from the ECIDA. (ecidany.com)