Potential impacts of new CSP rules
Analysts have been digging in to the Charter School Program (CSP) funding rules newly proposed by the Biden administration. The Washington Post summed up a number of charter proponents’ concerns in a piece earlier this week. Christy Wolfe, senior vice president of NAPCS, published a guest commentary on the Fordham Institute’s Flypaper blog laying out her troubling analysis in detail.
Trove of data
NAPCS’s annual Charter School Data Digest has been fully updated for 2021, including enrollment, demographics, and much much more. Check it out!
The view from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission this week passed a set of rules related to charter schools. Among them: changes to accounting and audit practices as well as information provision to districts and ethics requirements for charter school trustees. They could go into effect as early as May although some tweaks may occur before they are fully implemented.
The view from Kentucky
Meanwhile in Kentucky, HB 9 passed out of the House Education Committee and the full House earlier this week. The bill requires at least two charter schools to be created in northern Kentucky as a pilot project, providing that high quality applications are forthcoming. It is a new effort to jumpstart charter creation in the Bluegrass State, which has allowed them for many years but has yet to see a single school open.
Just across the river…
The Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati is mourning the impending loss of community fixture Giminetti Baking Company. Its connected café has already closed and the bakery will follow in April, ending a four decade run. However, company president Jim Ciuccio is excited that a new charter school will take over the building to create a career-tech focused school that will make use of both the production and the café space to continue serving the community.
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