CCAP congratulates Yuri Calderon on being named the new Executive Director of the Small School Districts’ Association (SSDA), effective June 1, 2024.

Calderon is an attorney with decades of experience in public education including as general and special counsel for many school districts.

CCAP looks forward to continuing its strategic partnership with SSDA to advance quality authorizing in public education. Through this partnership, which began in July 2020, all members of SSDA also are CCAP members and are entitled to membership benefits such as discounted registration for CCAP’s Charter School Authorizers Conference.

Small school districts, defined as having no more than 5,000 students, authorize about half of California’s 1,300 charter schools. Two-thirds of them authorize only one or two charters. Because of their size and oversight funding that is based on charter enrollment, most small districts have fewer staff members, resources, and time to dedicate to charter oversight.