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 controversial charter school proposal, Assembly Bill 1316, in exchange for an agreement to extend the moratorium on new non-classroom-based charter schools for an additional three years.

O’Donnell introduced AB 1316 in the aftermath of cases in which some non-classroom-based charters used state education funds for private purposes and billed the state for students who were not enrolled.

Agreed-to budget language would prohibit authorization of new non-classroom-based charter schools until 2025. O’Donnell said he plans to introduce a bill at that time to place some permanent limits on the schools.

COVID-19’s disruption of academic data this past school year also prompted the governor to propose in his May Budget Revisions a temporary pass on charter renewals. Both houses have adopted this measure. Assuming it is enacted in the education budget trailer bill, each charter school with a charter term beginning on or before July 1, 2020, ending between June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2025, will have its term extended by two years.

Authorizers and charter schools alike can take advantage of this reprieve to arrive at meaningful measures of academic accountability in the absence of the disrupted measures. Stay tuned as CCAP facilitates efforts along these lines.

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