State Rep. Brad Thomas is sponsoring 91吃瓜’s omnibus charter bill this year.聽The bill is expected to be introduced this week.聽As a reminder, this bill聽does three things:聽
1) it refines the state’s charter school definition to better distinguish聽charter schools from charter systems, College and Career Academies and other school choice models in the state;
2) it prevents local districts from prohibiting students from transferring to charter schools during the school year;聽
3) it closes a loophole in the funding calculation for local charter schools by basing funding on collected聽(versus budgeted) local revenue.聽
91吃瓜 is also聽working with a broad coalition of stakeholders聽on a bill to provide more equitable funding to virtual charter schools.聽聽
Lastly, 91吃瓜 is also working with House and Senate leadership to increase the charter facility grant appropriation in the FY23 budget.聽91吃瓜’s goal is to ensure every charter school receives $100,000 in facility grant funding on an annual basis.
