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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...
Tri-State Alliance Webinar on Remote Renewals The Tri-State Alliance held a webinar on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, on remote charter school renewals. The pandemic has forced us all to create new and innovative approaches to the way we conduct our work and processes....
Authorizers May Need to Remind Schools of Important December 31 Funding Deadline A combination of this year's Average Daily Attendance (ADA) "hold harmless" and the extension of the federal waiver to allow the summer meal program through June 30, 2021, may pose a...
Charter Authorizing 2.0 - Introducing a new approach to charter authorizing California has more charter schools than any other state, enrolling about ten percent of our public school students — over 600,000 — in more than 1,300 schools. The state’s 337 charter...
California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP) Urges State Board of Education to Recognize Authorizer Capacity Challenges as it Considers Charter School Assessment Measures The California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP) sent a letter to the...
Assembly Bill 1505 has changed the legal landscape for renewal decisions but left authorizers with unanswered questions. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the education world, depriving authorizers of important school performance data and shifting the...
