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CCAP's Summer Newsletter contains: CCAP is accepting nominees for the 2024 CCAP Authorizer Award Anti-Fraud efforts are moving from recommendations to implementation Authorizers in Action CCAP's newest Board Member Read the newsletter here.
Nesha Pattison is an anomaly in an atypical California school district. Since 2018, Nesha (pronounced na-SHAY) Pattison has served as director of charter services in Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District, a small district on the outskirts of Los Angeles County...
CCAP's June 18-21 California Charter School Authorizers Conference marks the next phase of its broad-based initiative to better prevent, detect, and prosecute fraud in public schools. The opening plenary session at the conference will feature a panel discussion of the...
Tiffany DeGraffenreid joined the CCAP Board of Directors in February of 2024, bringing with her two decades of charter school experience, including first-hand knowledge of the discrete needs and operations of independent study and nonclassroom-based charter schools...
EdSource CCAP co-founder and board president, David Patterson, discusses how recommendations in CCAP's Anti-Fraud Task Force report could correct weaknesses in California's public school funding system and help detect, prosecute, and deter future attempts by shady...
San Diego Union-Tribune Tom Hutton, Executive Director of California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP), discusses recommendations for detecting and preventing public school fraud in CCAP’s Anti-Fraud Task Force report, Protecting California Public Schools...
After a year of extensive fact-gathering and discussion, a broad-based statewide Anti-Fraud Task Force convened by California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP) has released 20 recommendations to strengthen California's capacity to prevent, detect, and prosecute...
CCAP congratulates Yuri Calderon on being named the new Executive Director of the Small School Districts’ Association (SSDA), effective June 1, 2024. Calderon is an attorney with decades of experience in public education including as general and special counsel for...
The California Department of Education (CDE) has released the 2023 data placing all of the state's charter schools that are not Dashboard Alternative School Status schools (DASS schools) into High, Middle, or Low performance categories for purposes of renewal. Most...
The state Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) have issued their much anticipated “Review of the Funding Determination Process for Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools.” The report includes significant...
