California loses $11.5 million in federal funding for charter schools

08-19-2011

By Diana Lambert/Sacramento Bee

California has lost $11.5 million of its federal funding for new charter schools this year and could lose more. The reduction came months after officials at the U.S. Department of Education warned that the state did not meet requirements of the Charter Schools Program, which funds two- and three-year grants for new charter schools, said Lupita Cortez Alcalá, a deputy superintendent with the California Department of Education. U.S. officials said state rules don't emphasize student achievement enough in determining whether to revoke or renew charters, Alcalá said. The federal Charter Schools Program is supposed to pay California about $50 million a year over several years, $51.6 million this year. But on Aug. 11, the state Department of Education got notice that the grant for 2011-12 would be only $40.1 million. (more...)

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