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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...
News Release! First Toolkits for Authorizers Charter authorizers play a demanding, ongoing and essential role in developing and maintaining high-quality charter schools in California. Too often, however, the regulations are vague or confusing. CCAP developed these...
Judge orders stronger proof of oversight in A3 charter schools ruling California school districts can only collect fees for overseeing charter commensurate with the actual costs of the oversight provided by the district, San Diego Superior Court Judge Frederick Link...
It’s not news that Miguel Cardona is a charter school authorizer — and that’s worth celebrating *This is an updated version of a Dec. 2020 article Alex Medler wrote for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation By Alex Medler On March 1, 2021, the U.S. Senate confirmed Miguel...
State’s New Guidelines for Renewals Under Court Challenge The 2019 charter school legislation, AB 1505, amended California’s statutory system for charter school renewals. Under the new law, most charter schools up for renewal are categorized into one of three...
CA2.0 Update: Coming This Month! First Authorizer Toolkits! The first two CCAP authorizer Toolkits, aimed at promoting top quality charter authorization, will be released this month! These toolkits cover evaluating charter petitions, with a strong focus on how the...
Richard Urias: CCAP Newsletter Board Spotlight Richard has worked with good and not so good charter schools and found that the best of them share at least one essential element: knowledgeable authorizers that provide effective oversight. But Urias, who joined the...
More guidance is in the works for authorizers on the changes that Assembly Bill 1505 made to California’s charter school system. At the November meeting of the State Board of Education (SBE), the California Department of Education (CDE) provided an update on the...
