vision2020@moscow.com: Re: CHARTER SCHOOL LEGISLATION

Re: CHARTER SCHOOL LEGISLATION

Tom and Briana LeClaire (bri-tom@moscow.com)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:11:29 -0800

Tom Trail wrote:
>
> Charter School legislation will be introduced this next legislative session.
> Draft legislation would authorize up to 12 charter schools per year,
> distributed geographcially up to a maximum of 60 during the first five
> years. Some of the
> basic elements of the proposed legislation are:
>
> 1. Funding of schools in basically the same manner as other public schools
> with some exceptions.
>
> 2. Requiring that all teachers be certified and that teachers are employees
> of the legal entity responsible for the charter school.
>
> 3.Limiting the number of charter schools which may be authorized to 12 per
> year.
>
> 4. Requiring that presentation of a petition to establish a new school will
> require the signature of at least 30 qualified electors of the school
> district in which the school will be located, and that a petition for the
> conversion of an existing school will require the signatures of at least
> 60% of the teachers at the school to be converted and at least one or more
> parents or guardians fo at least 60 percent of the students currently
> attending that school.
>
> 5. Requiring charter schools to incorportate as nonprofit corporations and
> secure liability insurance.
>
> 6. Providing that only local school boards of trustees may authorize a charter
> school, except that if approval of a new charter is denied or if
> conversion
> of an existing school is approved over the objection of 30 or more
> persons
> in the district, then such decision may be appealed. There shall be no
> appeal of a decision which approves a new charter or which denies the
> conversion of an existing school.
>
> All members of the Interim Charter School Committee signed off on the proposed
> legislation, and the compromise legislation appears to have a wide base of
> support.
>
> Rep. Tom Trail
>
> Dr. Tom Trail
> International Trails
> 2039 Mt. View Rd.
> Moscow, Id. 83843
> Tel: (208) 882-6077
> Fax: (208) 882-0896
> e mail ttrail@moscow.com

Hi Tom - could you please explain number 6? What do you mean by "local
school boards of trustees?" Do you mean, for example, the board of
trustees for the Moscow School District? Or the board of trustees of
the proposed charter school? Or what, exactly?

Thanks. :) Briana LeClaire

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