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She was finally able to pass her plan, enabling GOP governor Arne Carlson to sign the nation's first charter school law on June 4.

Nineteen states now have some sort of charter school law on the books, including eight that enacted legislation last spring and early summer.

Consider Ohio, which has had a charter school law on the books for nearly two decades.

Heading into the legislative session, Kentucky was one of only seven states without a charter school law on the books, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

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Automated External Defibrillator (AED): Education Law 917 requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to provide and maintain on - site in each instructional school facility automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment.

NYSUT was opposed to the tax credit, but the labor union had its hands full on other key issues, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to once again overhaul teacher evaluations, weaken teacher tenure laws and strengthen charter schools in addition to the perennial push for more school aid.

What we're looking at now is an extremely active post-budget session, with everything on the table — from the charter cap and DREAM / EITC to the NYC rent laws and mayoral control over the NYC school system, both of which sunset early in the summer.

On the prekindergarten issue, Success argues that the city's demand that it sign the contract violates state law, which it says gives a charter school's authorizer, not the city, oversight of its prekindergarten programs.

The pressure is on for New York to pass a new charter - school law before submitting a new application to qualify for up to $ 700 million in federal «Race to the Top» funds by the June 1 deadline.

«Name the issue — charter schools, taxes, public housing, law enforcement, regulation of car - sharing services — and Cuomo has gone out of his way to step on de Blasio's plans and sometimes humiliate him.»

She has some additional thoughts on changes to ethics laws, charter schools and the possibility of a state lottery.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law on June 15 a sweeping and controversial education bill that diverts public money to privately run charter schools.

The new charter law doesn't have much impact on independent charters, which generally don't extend past a single school and therefore don't need more space.

School districts held an exclusive franchise on public education services until 1991, when Minnesota passed the first law permitting public charter schools.

Since Illinois passed its charter school law in 1996, Chicago's public school district officials have viewed charters as another path to district improvement, especially for its high schools, and even went so far as to support an increase on the city's charter cap from 15 to 30.

Among the states, Minnesota (home of the nation's first charter law), Florida, and California allocate some financial assistance for lease payments to charter schools on a per - pupil basis, similar to the way in which operating funds are distributed.

In Ohio, state law gives charter schools first dibs on shuttered school buildings.

National organizations that rank charter - school laws have varying opinions on the charter laws of the Four Corners states.

NACSA's rating system places a higher weight on regulatory features of charter school laws than either the Center for Education Reform or the National Alliance rankings.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state's charter - school law is unconstitutional.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

In California, for example, which has the most charter schools of any state, the law stipulates that «admission to a charter school shall not be determined according to the place of residence of the pupil...» In Texas, another important charter state, the law prohibits «discrimination in admission policy on the basis of... the district the child would otherwise attend....»

On Top of the News Washington Charter School Law Ruled Unconstitutional by State's High Court Wall Street Journal 9/5/15

On the school choice front, Nevada has a limited open - enrollment policy, and a charter school law that is deemed weak by the Center for Education Reform, a rating that lowers the state's grade.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

CER judges each law against 10 criteria, each scored on a 1 — 5 scale, with a total possible score of 50 for laws most favorable to charter schools.

The NACSA report on state policies associated with charter school accountability attempts to describe how laws, regulations, and authorizer practices interact to influence charter quality.

In this part of our study, we compared states based on the rating of their laws by CER, which is an advocacy organization for charter schools.

These include depriving charters of full per - pupil funding; denying them access to (or financing for) facilities; placing new restrictions on existing schools or moratoriums on future growth; and weakening charter laws.

The interdistrict provisions in the law are weak, and charter options are not meaningful in states with arbitrary limits on new charter schools.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

Among those states with charter laws on the books, more than a third have fewer than 20 charter schools in operation.

Kentucky is one of the nation's poorest states, is the eighth most rural state, underperforms on NAEP, needs school options, and is one of only eight states left with no charter law.

California's extraordinarily liberal charter - school law, which gave birth to the nation's first charter - management organization (Aspire), differs from those of other states, partly because it does not require a focus on poor and minority students.

We at Fordham have lived through a long, slow, painful — but ultimately successful — effort to repair Ohio's charter law, which was full of loopholes and lax provisions bearing on schools and authorizers alike.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

Charter leaders say they supported the proposition on the assumption that school districts would treat their students equitably, as stated in the law.

Given that the growth in for - profit schools has been mainly in contracting with public schools or charter schools to operate individual public schools as EMOs, how much they diverge often depends on state laws and school district contracts.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

The state's charter law must support new and high - performing operators; the state's school finance system must provide equitable, student - based funding; facilities must be made available to new and growing schools; educator certification rules must fit the needs of successful schools; and so on.

For example, the quasi-experimental study by economists Tom Kane and Josh Angrist on Boston charter schools, which compared the winners and losers of charter admission lotteries, helped change the Massachusetts law that had blocked the creation of new charters.

Next month marks the twenty - fifth anniversary of the enactment of America's first charter school law, which Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson signed on June 4, 1991.

Laws about who can sit on charter boards vary around the country, but D.C.'s law limits charter boards to 15 unpaid members, with two seats reserved for school parents; 51 percent of members must be D.C. residents.

When it came to state data systems, charter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Qcharter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher QCharter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

These data are linked to information on changes both in public school - choice options under the now - defunct NCLB law and in the number of charter schools in an area.

Law professor at the University of South Carolina whose current research focuses on constitutional law and public education, Derek Black has written about charter schools in the context of education reform, civil rights, and service of the public prioritiLaw professor at the University of South Carolina whose current research focuses on constitutional law and public education, Derek Black has written about charter schools in the context of education reform, civil rights, and service of the public prioritilaw and public education, Derek Black has written about charter schools in the context of education reform, civil rights, and service of the public priorities.

Other popular choices are so - called screened schools like Bard High School and the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, which rank applicants on various criteria, and innovative charters such as the Charter High School for Law and Social Justice.

Litigation will continue nonetheless, because Ohio» the charter school law increases local districts» reliance on the local property tax, which increases inequalities in school funding, which leads to violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

California laws on charter schools don't specify these differences among charters.