04/20/2021
California Homeschool Parents
Please everyone, their at it again.
AB 1316 is horrible. You need to submit your opposition letter today by 5 pm. Here is a break down of some of the details of this bill.
go to this link and then right under the bill you will see a box that states "letter to the author" click on that and from there you can submit your letter
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/.../billNavClient...
Also, send a letter to your assemblyman asking them to oppose AB 1316. Also, please share this information.
The 88-page bill contains a huge number of problematic provisions that would negatively impact all charter schools. While some of the worst are targeted at non-classroom-based schools, all charter schools would be seriously negatively impacted. Some of the most offensive ones include, but are not limited to the following:
For non-classroom-based Charter Schools- what we call “homeschool charters”
• Cuts funding for most non-classroom-based schools by 30 percent using an inflexible sliding scale, replacing most of the current “funding determination” laws
• Requires all non-classroom-based schools to offer a full, classroom-based program,
• Prohibits funding for students who reside out of a charter school’s home county,
• Requires supervising teachers to have in-person or live visual/audio contact with students at least once every third day and imposes many additional paperwork requirements on supervising teachers,
• Requires proctoring (presumably in-person) of all annual summative tests,
• Disallows average daily attendance during days dedicated to undefined “enrichment activities,”
• Caps the size of charter schools a given district may authorize based on a sliding scale, thereby capping growth permanently in many districts
• Expands scope of mandated, board-adopted independent study policies and related written independent study agreements to include a long list of new items and restrictions.
For All Charter Schools
• Triples the current cap on authorizer oversight fees,
• Imposes prescriptive minimum daily instructional minutes laws and related auditing and high-stakes financial penalties,
• Dramatically expands annual finance and compliance audit, procedures, requirements, report contents, schedules, and disclosures,
• Expands audit requirements for related entities and mandates consolidation of auditing for related entity organizations with material financial relationships to a charter school (presumably targeting CMO “central offices,” facilities support, “friends of” fundraising organizations, etc.),
• Eliminates authority to operate year-round, multitrack instructional calendars,
• Requires charter schools to report “full SACS-compliant” financial data in the same format as school districts, thereby mandating implementation of complex and costly accounting software, systems, and practices,
• Mandates all teaching staff be employed by the school, thereby presumably prohibiting procuring teaching and special education services from other agencies, school districts, and/or county offices, and
• Imposes complex public sector competitive bidding and contracting requirements on all charter schools.
Please share this info with everyone who loves your children and ask them to do the same. You may want to provide them with your letter so they have a template on what to say.
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