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There are three key ingredients for a successful charter school, says school finance expert Debi Deal: a focused and rigorous curriculum, a solid governance structure, and a strong finance team. “Not any one of them is more important than the other; they’re all...
Critical Deadlines for Funding and Grants During uncertain fiscal times, it’s more important than ever not to leave money on the table. Authorizers can help ensure that local charter schools receive all the funds they are entitled to by reminding them of upcoming...
CCAP and WestEd are developing a supplement for CCAP’s authorizer toolkit on new school petitions on options for assessing whether charter school petitions meet California’s new community interest requirement. Under AB 1505, initial charter petitions, renewals,...
Los Angeles Times CCAP co-founder and board president, David Patterson, discussed the seriousness of charter schools closely following regulations and district authorizer oversight in an article concerning an Orange County, California, charter school that could...
The74 Op-ed Top district leaders in authorizing “do not consider themselves pro- or anti-charter; they simply want to perform their jobs as authorizers well, and they consider charter school students their district’s kids,” write Alex Medler, Melissa Brady and Tom...
The National Network for District Authorizing Chair, Alex Medler, hosted a conversation with Andy Franko from D49 in Colorado, and Corey Loomis from the Riverside County Office of Education in California to discuss their initiatives to help charter schools improve....
Court rejects lawsuit over funding for nonclassroom-based programs; CDE reminds nonclassroom-based charters to obtain funding determination On July 27, 2021, a Sacramento County Superior Court rejected claims by online and hybrid-learning charter schools that the...
Congress seeks to restrict for-profit involvement in charter schools Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are proposing to cut $40 million from the $440 million federal Charter School Program (CSP) and to prohibit federal funding to any charter school “that...
Most California charter schools received a two-year extension on their terms under Assembly Bill (AB) 130, the TK-12 Public Education Omnibus Trailer bill, signed by Governor Newsom earlier this month. The bill also extends the moratorium on the establishment of new...
CCAP's Summer Newsletter contains: Authorizer update: Charter issues to watch this summer and fall Call out to authorizing staff: Tell us what you need; Take our survey Build better authorizing practices with CCAP's new toolkits Extending a great partnership! Board...
