PPI: Charter School Districts By Paul T. Hill education policy (school choice, standards and accountability), workbasedwelfare Gary Hart, author of the california charter school bill (1996). http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?contentid=3365&knlgAreaID=110&subsecid=134
Extractions: ACCOUNTABILITY BACK to Accountability Main Page California Charter School Accreditation Program The California Network of Educational Charters (CANEC) has announced what it is calling the first recognized accreditation program designed specifically to measure charter school quality to be launched by a state charter school association. The program, a partnership between CANEC and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), aims to raise the standards for charter schools operating throughout the state. The new WASC-CANEC Accreditation Program which emphasizes rigorous self-study, self-evaluation, and on-site visits by external review teams will provide school faculty, families, and community leaders with reliable verification of charter school quality. More importantly, the program will encourage improvement in the overall effectiveness of Californias charter schools. WASC is one of the six regional organizations charged with accrediting public and private schools, colleges, and universities in the United States. CANEC believes that the new Accreditation Program will give charter schools the guidance and support they need to succeed, while bringing assurance to key stakeholders. By holding charter school operators to the highest levels of performance, this program aims to boost the academic quality and financial stability of charter schools operating in California.
Accountability For Student Performance Navigating the standards Maze, by Laude Gardner/charter schools This briefingpaper outlines how california charter schools can address school http://www.charterfriends.org/performance.html
Extractions: Accountability for Student Performance An Annotated Resource Guide for Shaping an Accountability Plan for Your Charter School June 1998 About this Guide... The origins of this resource guide lie in informal conversations over the past year among the directors of a number of state charter school resource centers and others on the need to strengthen accountability systems in charter schools. An informal survey of resource center directors by Charter Friends National Network in early 1998 also found this issue to be the top priority concern of the centers and the schools they represent. To begin to focus this conversation, the Friends Network helped convene about thirty "Friends Group" leaders, chartering authority officials, school leaders, and other national experts on assessment and accountability for a two-day meeting in early February. Out of this meeting, a smaller working group developed and circulated a six-point framework for schools to help them design and implement their own accountability programs. This resource guide is an extension of that frame-work and is intended to be the first in a series of assessment and accountability tools that will be developed and made available to schools through the resource centers. Among the resource center leaders who helped draft and circulate the six-point framework were Robin Steans, Leadership for Quality Education in Chicago, Eric Premack and Laurie Gardener, California Charter School Development Center and Sarah Tantillo, New Jersey Charter School Resource Center. A complete list of individuals who participated in the February meeting may be found at the end of this resource guide.
California Charter Schools Conference 2005 IBM can help your school develop IT standards, transform an aging infrastructure Our expertise encompasses every facet of california charter school law, http://www.charterconference.org/sponsors.php
Doc Prototype In fact, california provides almost all funds for charter school operations, 4 Specific standards apply to the charter school s operating methods, http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/programs/ori/advisory95/95-11a.htm
Extractions: 4(b)(1) Dear Mr. Gilbert: This is in response to your correspondence concerning applicability of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to the California State Teachers' Retirement System (hereinafter, the CSTRS). Specifically, you requested the views of the Department of Labor (the Department) as to whether the status of CSTRS as a "governmental plan" within the meaning of section 3(32) and section 4(b)(1) of Title I of ERISA would be adversely affected by accepting contributions pursuant to state law from a certain "charter school" operation (i.e., Charter School No. 17), assuming those contributions were made on behalf of its employees for the limited period that the school's charter was in effect and were made so as to allow its employees to participate in CSTRS for only that same period. Your correspondence and the materials you enclose contain the following facts and representations. You represent that CSTRS is a defined benefit pension plan that was established and is administered pursuant to California statute.
FCMATnews : Charter Schools programs schools that fail to meet standards could have their charters revoked, charter school offenses alleged A california Department of Education http://www.fcmat.org/newsHeadlines/newsItems/viewDepartment$Charter Schools
Extractions: CDE CCSESA CASBO CEDPA ... Search School is still out at L.A. charter campus For many teenagers, annual back-to-school concerns involve buying supplies, choosing new clothes or trying to get a handle on teachers and schedules. But the approximately 350 students enrolled at Renaissance Academy Charter High School and their parents have a bigger worry: when, where, or even if, classes at their year-old school will resume this fall. Bilingual academy seeks to blaze trails Early-morning pleasantries set the tone for the daily instructional challenge at the Excellence and Justice in Education Elementary Academy. The charter school, which opened last month with 110 students, aims to graduate students who are fluent in Spanish and English by the fifth grade. Right now that is still a dream of the community activists, parents and teachers who are running the East County school. Charter school chiefs moving on Less than three years into its controversial reinvention as a charter school run by the nonprofit St. HOPE Corp., Sacramento Charter High School is shedding its top leaders. Al Rogers, superintendent of the organization overseeing the school and a graduate of Sacramento High, resigned this week after seven months in the position. His departure comes just weeks after a principal and an administrator also quit. Another principal resigned in June.
Charter School Association Calls For Reform VICTORVILLE Though the repercussions of the california charter Academy It was the charter school community that first called for tougher standards http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/111357194079489.html
Santa Barbara School Districts: Peabody Charter School Peabody charter school feeds into Santa Barbara Junior High school. which isan achievement test based on state standards, california Achievement Test, http://www.sbsdk12.org/schools/elementary/peabody.shtml
Extractions: July 8, 2005. Peabody Charter School General Information Grades Served K-6 Address 3018 Calle Noguera City Santa Barbara State CA Zip Code Phone Fax E-mail Mrs. Patricia Morales Principal Mrs. Patricia Morales School Mascot Panthers School Colors None Web Page www.sbceo.org/~peabody1 School Highlights Peabody Charter School was constructed in 1927. It is situated on the north side of the City of Santa Barbara. From the original six-classroom building, Peabody has expanded to its 33 classroom campus for K-6 students. In 1993, the staff, parents, and students reached a consensus that becoming a charter school would allow the ability, flexibility, and latitude to provide innovative curriculum, development, and instruction. Working together with the Board of Education of the Santa Barbara Elementary School District, a contract was negotiated to create a charter school as permitted under Senate Bill 1448 of the State of California. As a charter school focused on meeting students' needs, the school functions with the freedom to create its own academic programs, teaching methods, measures of success, community and family involvement guidelines and fiscal responsibilities. Among the school's program highlights are: extended school day/late start Fridays; Gifted and Talented Education program; art enrichment; the Splash Zone, which hosts ceramics and fine arts classes daily with our artists in residence; Peabody Peacemakers, a voluntary cadre of upper grade students trained in conflict resolution vocabulary and strategies; second language instruction in English or Spanish; sports.
Charting A Wasteful Course funding of charter schools that are usually freed from meeting standards, The recent failure of a huge charter school operation in california points http://nochildleft.com/2004/oct04waste.html
Extractions: About NoChildLeft.Com Articles Cartoons Hot News Articles ... Home Volume II, Number 8, October, 2004 For all the talk about research-based educational policy and high standards, the Bush administration has endorsed a wasteful and reckless scheme to divert public funds over to the funding of charter schools that are usually freed from meeting standards, honoring labor agreements and showing good results. A recent study comparing the test results of charter schools with their public school counterparts gives the lie to the simplistic claims of right wing, free market advocates of privatized schooling. Not only is the data about charter school performance embarrassing, the American Federation of Teachers, which released the analysis, claims in " First-Ever NAEP Charter School Results Repeatedly Delayed " that the Department of Education tried in various ways to withhold the data until it could manufacture an explanation (spin) to excuse away the results. "The government’s first obligation to the public was to release the NAEP charter school results, just like it does with other NAEP results," said Bella Rosenberg, an author of the AFT report. "Repeatedly delaying that report for the sake of packaging the results with an official explanation tarnishes NAEP’s gold-standard reputation."
LSD Open Class May Become Charter california charter schools can be organized by teachers, parents, She saidthat a charter schools ability to meet california education standards is http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/dec06_01/charter_schools.html
Extractions: Point Reyes Light - December 6, 2001 LSD Open Class may become charter By Daniel Freed Alan Weiler, an Open Classroom parent and chairman of the newly formed Charter Committee, said that the meeting showed "a preponderance of support" for pushing ahead with turning the program into a charter school. However, two dissenting voices were raised by permanent-status Open Classroom teachers John Kaufman and Larry Nigro. "Something’s telling me, ‘Stop! Hold on!’" said Kaufman, whose wife Katie Rasmussen is a teacher in the district’s Montessori program. "There’s still just something about splitting away and pulling away from the rest of the district." Other options for proponents "What this charter is growing from doesn’t really feel healthy," Nigro said. "I’m a public school teacher, and this doesn’t feel like public school." The Light that he met with Kaufman and Nigro last Tuesday to discuss their positions on the matter. "Both of them are concerned that this isn’t being pushed for the right reasons," Kebell said. "Normally you have to start a charter to have some type of innovative program," he added. "They already have an innovative program. I believe the reason here is to circumvent the seniority rights of teachers in the district."
Lighthouse Community Charter School In order to graduate from the Lighthouse Community charter school, Contentstandards are drawn directly from the california State standards. http://www.lighthousecharter.org/ioc/acheivement.html
Extractions: School-wide Graduation Outcomes have come from two primary sources: the California State Standards and the New Standards published by the National Center on Education and the Economy and the University of Pittsburgh. The state standards comprise the bulk of our content-based outcomes (i.e. students will understand the cause, major players, and resolution of the Civil War) and the New Standards comprise the bulk of our process-based outcomes (i.e. students will produce a report that develops a controlling idea that conveys a perspective on a subject). In order to graduate from the Lighthouse Community Charter School, students must achieve mastery of the Graduation Outcomes in eight separate academic areas. The eight academic areas of focus are often integrated as teachers take on the role of generalists, rather than specialists in a particular area. In the middle and secondary grades, although the teachers become more specialized, they continue to integrate the process and content of the other areas as well. The areas of academic focus are:
Extractions: News release Fact sheet Jump to: Table of Contents Introduction and Summary This book's table of contents and introduction also available in PDF format Listen to a March 30 national news conference call with the authors Table of contents Introduction and summary Chapter 1. The reaction to the AFT's report on charter school scores
Extractions: ASA News ASEE Prism Academe African American Review ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports The character school option: charter school supporters believe sustainable educational success occurs school by school, not through mandates from the district, state or federal level Leadership Sept-Oct, 2002 by David Patterson Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Over the last five years, California has created a high stakes environment in K-12 education. In this new environment, educators are desperately seeking different and more powerful approaches, methods and organizational structures in order to meet the challenge of achieving high levels of student performance. Why did the Legislature and governors create this high-stakes environment? Consider this: According to the 2001 statewide STAR test results released last year, fewer than a third of California public school students were deemed proficient in English and language arts. Results were much worse for the state's poor students: fewer than one in five children were rated proficient or above on the standards-based test. California did no better on the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress).
The Performance Institute Establishing charter school Quality standards From the moment a charter school for the california charter schools Association in examining charter http://www.performanceweb.org/Centers/Education/Events/S210/S210.htm
Extractions: Discover techniques and practices that engage the community, local businesses and government MENU The 2005 Charter School Performance Conference will be held at the Wyndham San Diego at Emerald Plaza. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a discounted rate of $161 at The Wyndham San Diego at Emerald Plaza. Please mention Performance Institute to guarantee this conference rate.
MercuryNews.com 07/31/2005 Charter School Aims High If they approve it, other major charter groups in california are likely to state curriculum standards and financial oversight like other public schools. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/education/12269085.htm
Charter Schools Are Rising To The Challenge Ever since california passed the law creating charter schools in 1992, that charters meet the high standards that every california school should reach. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/02/EDG
Ohio School Boards Association The california charter Academys slide into insolvency left 6000 students, Likewise, educational standards must be maintained. Community schools can be http://www.osba-ohio.org/AESCtestimony.htm
Washington Charter School Resource Center AFT Report Actually Bolsters california charter schools Effectiveness at charter school movement has embraced new accountability standards for http://www.wacharterschools.org/news/natlnews/2004-08-18_CCA.htm
Washington Charter School Resource Center For more information, go to the california charter Schools Association web site The refined WASL will reinforce our states high academic standards, http://www.wacharterschools.org/involved/archivedletters/2004-03-11.htm
Extractions: LAW WILL TAKE EFFECT ON JUNE 10, 2004 Thursday, March 11, 2004 Dear Friends, The Washington Legislature yesterday did what no previous Washington Legislature had been able to do before: pass identical charter school bills in both the House and the Senate during the Legislative Session. Charter bills had passed the House in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, but in the Senate, none of the bills ever reached the Senate floor. Charter bills passed the Senate in 2003 in both the regular and special sessions, but neither bill ever reached the House floor. Yesterday, March 10, 2004 was a very special day in the long struggle to bring the CHOICE of charter public schools to the children, families and educators of Washington state. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2295 (E2SHB 2295) passed the state House of Representatives in the early afternoon on a vote of 51-46. About five hours later, the state Senate passed the identical bill on a vote of 27-22. http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo/dspBillSummary.cfm?billnumber=2295
