At next week’s State Board of Education (SBE) meeting, the topic of “significant shifts in student enrollment from an LEA to a charter school” will be on the table.
Earlier this year, a handful of district administrators and school boards complained that new and expanding charter schools would limit their ability to provide a sound education to students remaining in the district system. In response, the State Board of Education asked the NC Department of Public Instruction to examine budget provisions (from 2000 and 2001) designed to provide additional funding to districts that experience a significant migration of students to charters. Part of the SBE’s objective is to establish an “appropriate” limit to the number and/or percentage of students enrolled at charter schools in a given county.
After they reach a consensus, the SBE will pitch a specific proposal to the General Assembly for the “short” session. Just for the record, I do not expect legislators to be receptive to their plan.
