Families Empowered pointed to the success of a universal application in the District of Columbia, which saw a significant uptick in the
number of charter school applications upon implementation.
Board member Rob Johnson criticized a draft
proposal of the charter school application, saying that, except for a mission statement, it did not specifically address how the charter school would meet the needs of disadvantaged or challenged students.
They may have to wait a bit longer to hear the good (or bad) news too, as members of the State Board came to understand that
many of the charter school applications recommended by the Charter School Advisory Board came with significant reservations about their ability to carry out their intended missions.
◦ the asset and liability projections required in the application which are incorporated into the charter and which shall be compared with information provided in the annual report of the charter school
The LA Unified School Board convened at 10 a.m. and didn't adjourn until more than 12 hours later yesterday, in a series of meetings that ran the gamut from moving forward on finding a new superintendent, to confronting ugly budget realities to diving into the
minutiae of charter school applications.
During debate at today's meeting of the Education Committee, Commissioner Patricia Levesque noted that a recent presentation by the Florida Department of Education noted that two -
thirds of all charter school applications presented to Florida school boards are rejected.
The Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee on Friday postponed a vote until at least next week after Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Democrat who chairs the education subcommittee, suggested striking language from the bill that would reduce the state board of education's ability to weigh in on the denial
of a charter school application at the local level.
Morgan Barth, an aide to Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor is the individual who is responsible for the State Department of Education Charter School review process and will be leading the discussion during the State Board of Education's agenda item entitled, «
Consideration of Charter School Applications.»
Louisiana Charter Law includes a mandate that charter school authorizers follow the National Association of Charter School Authorizers» (NACSA's) «Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing» to ensure they are following best practices both in the
evaluation of charter school applications, as well as in oversight of existing schools.