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Be a part of something new and broad-based in California authorizing. Join CCAP and the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) by creating and joining regional networks of authorizers, especially in rural and small districts. In our last e-Alert, we announced...
California lost a pioneering educational leader last week with the death of former State Senator, Assemblyman and Education Secretary Gary Hart, at age78. Senator Hart, a Democrat who represented the central coast for twenty years, will remain best known for authoring...
CCAP has received one of two technical assistance grants from the California Department of Education (CDE) to expand professional development and networking opportunities for school districts and county offices of education that authorize charter schools. CCAP and...
California will soon roll out a mammoth $3 billion Community Schools Partnership Program. The competitive grants will provide planning, coordination and implementation grants for up to seven years for charter and district public schools to transform into community...
When the experiment with charter schools began 30 years ago, their future was hardly guaranteed. Today, there are more than 7,500 charter schools serving 3.3 million students in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Along with that growth has...
CCAP and its partners, the Colorado Association of Charter School Authorizers (CACSA) and the Florida Association of Charter School Authorizers (FACSA), have launched a new organization to support state-level initiatives working to strengthen the charter school...
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,...
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....
