Interviewed by Cooper Langford of Listed Magazine
concerning board renewal and best practices, February 17, 2012.
Not exact matches
Two were shut down in midstream — one for health and safety
concerns, another for financial shortcomings — while four were denied
renewal of their charters, for reasons ranging from failure to meet the 25 - student enrollment threshold to financial weakness to an inability to satisfy the local school
board that the school could meet its educational goals.
Expressing
concern about the feasibility to do just that, State
Board member Wayne McDevitt ran through a lengthy list of all of the oversight and monitoring responsibilities that are placed on the shoulders of a very understaffed Office of Charter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions,
renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litigation.
The state said those numbers «call into question» the academy's plans to address the issue after AFHA received a three - year contract
renewal two years ago, rather than the usual 5 - year
renewal, because of the state
Board of Education's
concerns about its high rate of suspension and disciplinary issues.
Charter and KIPP New Orleans Leadership Academy, the state
board made charter
renewal contingent on contract riders addressing particular
concerns.
Additionally, Ms. Levenson served as a hearing officer / consultant for the Massachusetts
Board of Education in all phases of an administrative hearing
concerning a commonwealth charter school's application for
renewal of its charter.