Sentences with phrase «charters under state oversight»

Under the other Jindal proposal, parents of students attending failure mills throughout the state would be allowed to vote on whether it can become part of the Recovery School District after three years of persistent academic underachievement; the schools would essentially be converted into charters under state oversight.

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Charters are public schools that boards of local citizens can apply to open and run under state oversight, and that any child can attend.

The Michigan legislature, during a special session last month, passed a new charter law designed to address the judge's concern that the state board of education did not have adequate oversight of charter schools under the previous measure.

Under the bill, an independent oversight board would be created inside the state Department of Education to review new charters and monitor existing ones in a move to address growing questions about the quality and access of the alternative schools.

Most of Washington's charters are also under the oversight of the state's appointed Charter School Commission.

«We need to be assured that all charters are under this SELPA — and that is my only objection,» he said, adding, «We are taking the advantages that are allied to us by state law in the renewal process to raise questions that have to do with the oversight, which is totally within our bounds.»