Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends processes for authorizing charter schools, and non-classroom-based charter schools in particular, in California.

Highlights:

• Amends requirements for authorizing charter schools, especially non-classroom-based charters (Sec. 1-44).

• Requires the amount of funding to be allocated to a charter school on the basis of average daily attendance that is generated by pupils engaged in nonclassroom-based instruction, as defined, to be adjusted by the state board, as provided (Sec. 1-44.

• Amends and revises and recast those provisions by, among other things, requiring the above-described determination for funding to instead be on a percentage basis and requiring the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement the determination for funding by reducing the charter school’s reported average daily attendance by the determination for funding percentage specified by the state board, as provided (Sec. 1-44).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 44).

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