Tuesday, May 13, 2008
CCSD & Sea Islands YouthBuild: What Now?
If you can make any sense out of what is going on with this charter, I'd be glad of your comments. The P & C's recent article [YouthBuild Gets 2-week Reprieve ] was not illuminating!
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I don't know anything specific about this charter school, but the state law has a prescribed procedure for terminating/revoking a charter. The P&C article doesn't address whether CCSD has followed that procedure, parts of which I quote below. The district doesn't get to say, "OK, this was a bad idea - school's closed."
From the state charter school law:
(C) A charter must be revoked or not renewed by the sponsor if it determines that the charter school:
(1) committed a material violation of the conditions, standards, or procedures provided for in the charter application;
(2) failed to meet or make reasonable progress, as defined in the charter application, toward pupil achievement standards identified in the charter application;
(3) failed to meet generally accepted standards of fiscal management; or
(4) violated any provision of law from which the charter school was not specifically exempted.
(D) At least sixty days before not renewing or terminating a charter school, the sponsor shall notify in writing the charter school's governing body of the proposed action. The notification shall state the grounds for the proposed action in reasonable detail. Termination must follow the procedure provided for in this section.
*snip*
(F) The charter school's governing body may request in writing a hearing before the sponsor within fourteen days of receiving notice of nonrenewal or termination of the charter. Failure by the school's governing body to make a written request for a hearing within fourteen days must be treated as acquiescence to the proposed action. Upon receiving a timely written request for a hearing, the sponsor shall give reasonable notice to the school's governing body of the hearing date. The sponsor shall conduct a hearing before taking final action. The sponsor shall take final action to renew or not renew a charter by the last day of classes in the last school year for which the charter school is authorized.
I like you, Clisby. Thanks for keeping us straight with the facts...
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