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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 Seeking Prospective Board Members! Consider being part of a statewide movement to advance equity in and access to high quality California charter schools by strengthening charter school authorizing. The California Charter Authorizing Professionals is seeking new...
Extending a great partnership! CCAP is pleased to announce that we have extended our strategic partnership with our friends at the Small School Districts' Association (SSDA) for two more years! Thanks to the generous support of the U.S. Department of...
Board Member Spotlight: Brianna García Brianna García wants CCAP to become a household name, the go-to place for California charter school authorizing. “What I would ultimately like to see for CCAP, is that if anybody has a question about charters they go, ‘Oh, I know...
Building Better Authorizing Practices with CCAP's New Toolkits California charter authorizers have four key responsibilities: (1) deciding whether to approve charter petitions, (2) monitoring and reporting on a charter school’s ongoing operations, (3) determining when...
Authorizer Update: Charter Issues to Watch this Summer and Fall The COVID-19 pandemic has complicated many charter oversight functions in various ways. When the State Legislature enacted Assembly Bill (AB) 1505, charter authorizers and other observers anticipated...
Legislative updates: No charter renewals for two years, three years added to freeze on new non-classroom-based charters, AB 1316 shelved Assembly Education Chair Patrick O'Donnell has reportedly reached an agreement with Governor Gavin Newsom to withdraw his...
Reimagining Authorizing: NACSA’s Community-Centered Approach Public education is entering a “new normal” era — the current idiom that describes the post-COVID vaccination world — and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is using the shift as...
