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 FL | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Establishes criteria for high-performing charter schools (virtual or cyber charters are not eligible) and high-performing charter school systems. Authorizes a high-performing charter school to increase enrollment, expand grade levels served, submit a quarterly financial statement, consolidate the charters of certain charter schools, and receive certain modification or renewal of its charter. Provides that student capacity of a high-performing charter school be determined annually by the governing board. Encourages systems to work with disadvantaged students by authorizing certain charter schools more time to turn around a low-performing school. Abolishes the Charter School Review Panel. Requires the state Department of Education to study various issues, including finance, relating to charter schools. authorizes a charter school's governing board to request a hearing regarding charter nonrenewal or termination, including
immediate termination; authorizes the sponsor to choose to provide a direct hearing or a hearing before an administrative law judge; authorizes the award of costs and attorney's fees to a charter school if certain criteria are met; authorizes quarterly financial reporting for certain charter schools; establishes additional student enrollment preferences; prohibits a sponsor from limiting or requiring waiver of certain high-performing charter school benefits as a condition of charter approval or renewal;provides that student capacity of a high-performing charter school shall be determined annually by the governing board.Adds tto the list of eligible students to include: Students who are the children of an employee of the business partner of a charter school-in-theworkplace or a resident of the municipality in which such charter school is located; a resident of a municipality that operates a charter school-in-amunicipality; students who have successfully completed a voluntary prekindergarten education program provided by the charter school or the charter school's governing board during the previous year; students who are the children of an active-duty member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces.
Ch. 2011-232 LAWS OF FLORIDA Ch. 2011-232
13http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-232.pdf
Title: S.B. 1546
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires charter schools and charter technical career centers to post their financial information on the Transparency Florida website. Requires the Auditor General to annually submit to the Legislature a list of any school districts, charter schools, charter technical career centers, colleges, state universities, and water management districts that have failed to comply with the transparency requirements. Requires the Chief Financial Officer to make a state contract management system publically available that includes information and documentation relating to contracts procured by state governmental entities. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-049.pdf
Title: S.B. 2096
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| FL | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Repeals 1003.62, which authorized the state board to enter into performance contracts with districts to establish them as academic performance-based charter school districts. Repeals references elsewhere in the education code to academic performance-based charter school districts. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 26
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Creates the empowered schools and school districts act. Allows a public school, zone, or district to submit empowerment plans to the state board. Plans must include information such as:
1. A statement of the mission of the school, zone, or district and why designation as an empowered school, zone, or district would enhance the ability of the school, zone, or district to achieve its mission;
2. A description of the innovations the school, zone, or district would implement, which may include, but not be limited to, innovations in school staffing, curriculum and assessment, class scheduling, use of financial and other resources, and faculty recruitment, employment, evaluation, and compensation;
3. A listing of the programs, policies, or operational documents within the school, zone, or district that would be affected by the innovations identified by the school, zone, or district and the manner in which they would be affected.
Details other expectations.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB2330_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 2330
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Existing legislation defines "high school cluster" as a high school and all its feeder middle and elementary schools, including both public and charter schools. New provision specifies that a local board must not act on a petition for a conversion charter for a high school cluster (just as it may already not act on a petition for a conversion charter school) until the petition has been agreed to by a majority of faculty, instructional staff members, and parents. Adds new provision that, alternatively, a local board must not act on a petition for a conversion charter for a high school cluster until such petition has been approved by a majority of the school councils in the high school cluster and agreed to by at least 60% of the faculty, instructional staff members and parents present at a public meeting called to determine whether to submit the petition to the local board for approval. Requires each school council in the high school cluster to appoint two representatives to a committee to conduct the vote. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb457.pdf
Title: S.B. 457
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Allows a school food authority to establish, maintain, equip, and operate a food-service facility; requires a board of education of a school district either to allow a district charter school of the school district to transfer the maintenance, supervision, and operation of the district charter school's food-service facility from the school district to a school food authority or to agree to provide food services to the district charter school according to terms that the district charter school requests.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/BB267B13A49BB6F087257553007ECA26?open&file=230_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 230
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Enacts the Charter Systems Act. Amends definitions of "charter," "charter petitioner," "local revenue," and "petition," and adding definitions of "charter system," "governing council," "school-level governance," and "system charter school." Provides procedures for the establishment of charter systems. Provides that, with exceptions, all schools within a charter system are system charter schools. Directs the state board of education to establish rules to allow a local school district to submit a petition to establish a charter system. Provides that such rules must include specific components toward the goal of maximizing school level governance and the involvement of parents, teachers, and community members in such governance.
Directs the state board, subject to legislative appropriation, to disburse planning grants to local school systems that wish to become charter systems, and to disburse $125,000 implementation grants to each charter system. Authorizes the state board to approve up to 5 petitions for charter systems during the 2008 fiscal year, and in following years to approve up to a maximum number of petitions as may be established in board rules and as subject to availability of funding for
implementation grants.
Directs the state board to establish a charter advisory committee to review charter petitions for compliance with established standards, and to make recommendations to the state board on charter policy and petitions.
Amends code section 20-2-2064 relating to the approval or denial of a charter petition. Amends code section 20-2-2064.1 relating to the review of a charter by the state board, by directing the state board to give all due consideration to input from the charter advisory committee. Amends code section 20-2-2065, relating to operating requirements, control, and management. Amends code section 20-2-2067.1 relating to the amendment of the terms of charter for a charter school, the initial term of a charter, and an annual report. Revises code section 20-2-2068, relating to charter amendments and terminations. Amends code section 20-2-2068.1 (effective July 1, 2008), relating to the application of the Quality Basic Education Formula, grants, local tax revenue, and funds from local bonds. Adds new language directing that, for system charter schools, federal, state, and local revenue be distributed to each such school by the charter system with an objective of maximizing spending at the school level. Amends code section 20-2-2069, relating to the office of charter school compliance, to add references to charter systems and the charter advisory committee.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/sb39.pdf
Title: S.B. 39
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Enacts the Charter School District Act of 2005; provides the procedures for a school district to become a charter school district.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/HB1101.pdf
Title: H.B. 1101
Source: StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires a study of the feasibility of establishing a host culture charter school district and a charter school district in order to solidify existing host culture focused charter schools, increase charter school autonomy, and provide opportunities for additional federal funding. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3148_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 3148
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Makes provisions relating to the calculation of average daily attendance inapplicable for purposes of determining the base revenue limit or block grant average daily attendance for charter school pupils who reside in a school district in which all schools have been converted to charter schools and that elect not to receive funding under specified provisions. Makes conforming changes in related provisions.
Title: A.B. 2912
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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