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Charters, districts air conflicts over facilities
- 09-23-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
The ability to get a suitable facility in a predictable time frame continues to pose the biggest obstacle to the growth of charter schools in California and an impediment to their high achievement. For many school districts, the requirement to provide those facilities can be a big headache. Proposition 39, passed in 2000, implemented in 2003 and clarified by regulations two years ago, was supposed to solve charters’ buildings problems. It requires that districts provide charter schools with facilities serving all students from the district that are “reasonably equivalent” to other district schools. But conflicts remain, and there has been more lawsuits over Prop 39 than over all other charter-related legal issues combined, says Eric Premack, founder and director of the Charter Schools Development Center in Sacramento. (more…)
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