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...
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Most California Charter Schools Meet State’s New Performance Levels
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...
LAO and FCMAT Findings and Recommendations on Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools Funding Determinations
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...
Oakland Unified School District: Bridging Divisions Through Transparency & Trust
Authorizer in Action Long before he was elected to the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board of Education in 2020, Board President Mike Hutchinson was staunchly and publicly opposed to charter school expansion in the district. "My line will always be that...
Come Again! Or Come for the First Time! Returning and New Attendees Share Their Conference Favorites
Bring your clone - or better yet, some colleagues! Dr. Jeffrey Hunt is a familiar face at CCAP's California Charter School Authorizers Conferences. He attended the inaugural 2022 conference in Costa Mesa and returned in 2023 for the Palm Springs conference not only...
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...
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...
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...
Check Out CCAP’s Resource Collection on Supporting English Learners
CCAP periodically surveys California authorizers about what resources and supports they need, and one area they told us in 2019 they could use help was in supporting English Learner students (EL). English learners represent 19 percent of California public school...
CCAP’s 2023 California Charter School Authorizers Conference Update
Register Now for CCAP's 2023 California Charter School Authorizers Conference! June 13-16 at the Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa near Palm Springs CCAP’s Charter School Authorizers Conference is less than 6 weeks away! Nothing says summer is here like taking a...