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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
