San Diego Union-Tribune Dehesa School District “exhibits some of the most extensive charter oversight seen in California from a small school district,” say experts, including CCAP Executive Director Tom Hutton, interviewed by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Dehesa...
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‘It really is time’: Four years after one of history’s largest charter fraud cases, some say California is overdue for reform
San Diego Union-Tribune In the four years since the San Diego District Attorney’s Office indicted A3 charter operators of stealing $400 million in state education funds, lawmakers have done little to tighten regulations and oversight, said San Diego Deputy District...
Fall 2023
CCAP's Fall Newsletter contains: CCAP's 2024 Conference Registration and Lodging are now open! Corey Loomis receives NN4DA Award The next webinar in CCAP's series on California Board of Education-approved academic progress indicators NN4DA Update What We're Reading...
CCAP’s Next Webinar on Verified Data
In the next webinar in CCAP’s series on verified data tools for school academic performance, representatives from the CORE Districts will share information on the work of their Data Collaborative. These initiatives include the CORE Insights Dashboard, designed to...
Riverside County Office of Education’s Corey Loomis Receives Inaugural NN4DA Award
Corey Loomis, director of the Charter Schools Unit of the Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE), is the first recipient of one of three awards from the National Network for District Authorizing (NN4DA), a federation of state initiatives of which CCAP is a...
California Charter Authorizing Professionals Preparing Report from Anti-Fraud Task Force
The initial report of recommendations from the broad-based, statewide Anti-Fraud Task Force initiated by CCAP is nearing completion. CCAP is aiming for a release early in 2024. CCAP initiated the task force last summer to safeguard public school finances by more...
3 Decades In, Charter Schools Continue to Face Legal Challenges
Education Week Lawsuits are on the rise against charter schools throughout the country raising questions over religious-based charters, local vs. state oversight, and whether charter schools are public or private and therefore, not entitled to state funding. CCAP...
CCAP Webinar Series on Verified Data
CCAP Holding Webinar Series on Verified Data for Academic Growth Starting on October 6, 2023, CCAP is sponsoring a series of free webinars for charter school authorizers to provide an opportunity for providers of some of the most widely used academic progress...
Spring 2023
CCAP's Spring newsletter contains: 2023 CCAP Conference details CCAP convenes a broad-based Anti-Fraud Task Force Authorizers in Action - Fresno Unified School District gives authorizing a personal touch Board Member Spotlight - Joe Hendrix Resource Collection on...
Task Force Seeks to Strengthen Fraud Safeguards
CCAP has convened a broad-based Anti-Fraud Task Force to develop and recommend strategies for deterring, detecting, and prosecuting fiscal misconduct in California’s public schools, with an emphasis on public charter schools. Today, nearly 690,000 students are...