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The group fiscally responsible for the success or failure of a charter school.
What is the Board of Directors?
100
The event that takes place 30 days after a petition is submitted to a district that allows the public to express opinions about a charter school's petition or renewal.
What is a public hearing?
100
The things you want parent speakers to have in their hands at the beginning of a board meeting.
What are speaker cards?
100
17
What is the number of people on the Organizing Team?
100
1183 in 2014
What is the number of operating charter schools?
200
The individuals who are legally required to instruct students (including charter school kids) in the state of California.
Who are credentialed teachers?
200
The team at CCSA primarily responsible for supporting new school growth.
What is the School Development Team?
200
The 1-2 minute speech that parents and supporters use to communicate a school's strengths during the advocacy process.
What is an elevator pitch?
200
1. Parent Organizer, Inland Empire 2. Parent Organizer, Sacramento Area 3. Parent Organizer, Oakland 4. Parent Organizer, Richmond 5. Managing Director, Parent Organizing, Southern California 6. Manager, Alumni Organizing, Bay Area
What are the open positions on the team?
200
May be granted by mutual consent for a total of 90 days.
What is a 30-day extension?
300
The entity that grants the charter, renews it every five years, and performs oversight duties.
What is the authorizer?
300
The first 4 are descriptions of a charter school's 1. Educational Program 2. Measurable Pupil Outcomes 3. Student Assessments 4. Governance Structure
What are the 16 elements of a charter school petition?
300
Reaching out to community members, recruiting families, contacting school board members, showing up at the board meeting vote, writing letters of support.
What are renewal advocacy strategies?
300
45,000
What is the number of contacts in Charter Nation?
300
This expense comprises the majority (40%) of a charter school's budget.
What are certificated (teacher) salaries?
400
The current number of charter school students in California, rounded to the nearest 100,000.
What is 500,000?
400
The type of evidence that must be submitted as a part of the petition process, 50% of which must be either parents of students expected to attend the school OR teachers expecting to teach at the school.
What are "meaningfully interested" signatures?
400
McKenna, Schmerelson, Zimmer, Ratliff, and Vladovic
Who are the board members who are most likely to vote against charter schools?
400
Giovanny likes to give these.
What are hugs?
400
The actions that result in adequate enrollment, great teaching staff, and community support for a charter's renewal.
What is community outreach?
500
The law that intends to provide opportunities for people "to establish and maintain schools that operate independently from the existing school district structure."
What is the California Charter Schools Act of 1992?
500
All of the following: - Parents and students - Local governing board - Other local community stakeholders - Authorizer oversight and 5 year renewal - Annual fnancial audits
Who and what holds charter schools accountable?
500
The evidence to support a non-approval around five criteria: 1. Sound educational program 2. Unlikely to successfully implement the program 3. Signatures required 4. Affirmation of conditions 5. Reasonably comprehensive descriptions of the required 16 elements
What are "factual findings"?
500
Phone number;passcode#
What is the proper way to type in a GoToMeeting phone number in a calendar event? (so you can just click on a link that dials into the call AND dials the passcode)
500
The law that often provides the least expensive facility options for developing charter schools.
What is Prop 39?