Did anyone notice that three charters that are slated to open in next year have applied to the state DOE to modify their charters so that they can delay opening until 2014-15?
https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/ViewMeetingOrder.aspx?S=190001&MID=280
First State Montessori, Early College High at DSU, and Academia Antonia Alonso are all seeking the modification. All three schools were scheduled to open in August/September of 2013.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but something doesn't feel quite right. Why are our three newest charters asking DOE to allow them to delay opening? In fact, all three requests will be decided upon by the State Board of Ed at it's Dec. 20th meeting. What a coincidence!
Something stinks in Dover...
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4 comments:
Anything to do with the charter committee review group hand picked.
According to the discussion at the State Board meeting, they requested it because of facilities not yet completed and the continued search for an appropriate school leader. Keep in mind these schools did not have the federal charter start up grant funds that every charter school previously approved has had so in terms of available start up funds they had to do much of their own fundraising and didn't receive the nearly 300,000 from the federal grant that others had received because the federal grant for this purpose ended.
I really don't believe there is any conspiracy or that it has anything to do with the Charter working Group.
How could they get approved if they didn't have leadership lined up? Another DOE epic fail.
also, all three? no conspiracy? really?
another GLARING example of the lack of capacity to approve and oversee charters in DE.
DEDOE = watercooler snickering joke.
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