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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...
CDE has invited CCAP to provide input from the field in an upcoming meeting to develop state regulations for the implementation of Assembly Bill 1505. Our friends at WestEd are helping to gather the input for CDE and will report to the State Board of Education the...
On September 30th, 2020, CCAP conducted a webinar on the recently-signed education budget trailer bill, Senate Bill 820, and the guidance it provides on spending during COVID. Our presenter was: Brianna Garcia, Director of Management Consulting Services for School...
CCAP conducted a webinar on Key Authorizer Updates, September 16th, 2020. The webinar featured the following speakers and an open discussion session: Ed Sklar, Partner, Lozano Smith, Attorneys at Law, provided a refresher on recent changes in the law affecting...
The California Department of Education (CDE) has announced LEA initial reporting of the use of Coronavirus Relief (CR) Funds from March 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020 has been suspended. LEAs are asked NOT to submit their reports on the California Department of Finance...
The California Department of Education has sent a letter to local education agencies (LEA) informing them the initial reporting for CR Funds will be due to the California Department of Finance (DOF) by Friday, September 11, 2020. LEAs will report the use of CR Funds...
