Results tagged “CCSA Answers”

• CCSA Answers: Calculating a Student Incarcerated at a Juvenile Detention Center into ADA

   

  Question: Can a charter school calculate a student incarcerated at a juvenile detention center into its Average Daily Attendance (ADA)?

  From: Members' Blog. Published May 17, 2013. Last Modified May 17, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Procedure for Designating Expenditures for EPA Payments

   

  Question: Our authorizing district recently passed a board resolution to accept and designate expenditures for its Education Protection Act (EPA) payments. The resolution suggested that there was a 'required hearing' as to how the funds would be spent. The resolution also stated how the district would use the funds. Is this required for charter schools, too?

  From: Members' Blog. Published May 12, 2013. Last Modified May 12, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Eligibility for California Distinguished Schools Awards

   

  **Question:** Our charter school is eligible to apply for a California Distinguished Schools Award, as an elementary school serving grades 4-8. We would like to apply in future years as a middle school for grades 6-8. Could we apply sooner than 2014 for a middle school award?

  From: Members' Blog. Published May 6, 2013. Last Modified May 12, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: STRS and Payment Schedule Options

   

  Question: If we are paying STRS for our teachers, would it be possible to pay some teachers over a 12-month period and other teachers over a 10-month period? Or, because of STRS, do we have to have all teachers on the same pay schedule?

  From: Members' Blog. Published April 26, 2013. Last Modified April 26, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Credential Needed to Teach Math and Science at a Site-Based Charter School

   

  Question: Which credential is needed to teach 6th grade math and science at our site-based charter school?

  From: Members' Blog. Published April 21, 2013. Last Modified April 22, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Proxy Voting

   

  Question: May charter schools include the option of proxy voting in their bylaws?

  From: Members' Blog. Published April 5, 2013. Last Modified April 5, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Release Requirements for Students from another District's Attendance Area

   

  Question: Before conversion, we required any student coming from another district's attendance area to be released in writing from his or her resident district. Do charter schools need to follow this policy?

  From: Members' Blog. Published March 29, 2013. Last Modified March 29, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Paying for College Courses or College Textbooks

   

  Question: Can a charter school pay for college courses or college textbooks, if a student is enrolled in its high school program, and receiving credit for those college classes at its high school? If yes, does the charter school only pay a percentage of the college course and textbook costs, or is it responsible for the entire expense?

  From: Members' Blog. Published March 18, 2013. Last Modified March 22, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Collecting signatures on the same form for both a new charter petition and Proposition 39

   

  Question: May the signature form for a new charter petition also be used to collect Proposition 39 signatures?

  From: Members' Blog. Published February 22, 2013. Last Modified February 25, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Opting Out of the STRS Retirement Network

   

  Question: Is there any way for our school to drop out of the STRS retirement network?

  From: Members' Blog. Published February 8, 2013. Last Modified February 8, 2013.

• CCSA Answers:   PI Schools and Title I

   

  Question: What is a "PI" school? What do PI schools have to do with Title I?

  From: Members' Blog. Published January 31, 2013. Last Modified January 31, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Charter Schools and Drivers Education

   

  Question: Are charter high schools required to offer Drivers Ed classes to their students?

  From: Members' Blog. Published January 25, 2013. Last Modified January 25, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Saturday School

   

  Question: Is there a way to "recoup" ADA through Saturday school programs?

  From: Members' Blog. Published January 10, 2013. Last Modified January 11, 2013.

• CCSA Answers: Must Physical Education Teachers at Charter Schools Be Credentialed?

   

  Question: Must Physical Education Teachers at Charter Schools Be Credentialed?

  From: Members' Blog. Published December 14, 2012. Last Modified December 14, 2012.

• CCSA Answers: Percentage used to set a charter school's API Growth target

   

  Question: How does the State set a charter school's new Academic Performance Index (API) Growth target for the new school year?

  From: Members' Blog. Published December 7, 2012. Last Modified December 7, 2012.

• CCSA Answers: School Site Council Requirement for Charter Schools

   

  Question: Are charter schools that are receiving federal funding required to have School Site Councils or exhibit evidence of parent participation? If yes, what is the authority for this requirement?

  From: Members' Blog. Published November 16, 2012. Last Modified November 16, 2012.

• CCSA Answers: Providing Accommodations for a Parent with a Hearing Impairment

   

  Question: We have a parent, who is hard of hearing, attending an upcoming evening tour of our charter school. She is requesting that we provide her with a sign language interpreter. Is this something we are required to do?

  From: Members' Blog. Published November 9, 2012. Last Modified November 9, 2012.

• CCSA Answers: Parent Conferences

   

  Question: Our charter school is a home study/independent studies school. Our contract states that we will hold "regularly scheduled conferences." How often are we required to hold conferences? Is there a law that governs this?

  From: Members' Blog. Published November 2, 2012. Last Modified November 2, 2012.

• CCSA Answers: Alternate Form for Reporting Financial Data

   

  Question: What is the Charter School Unaudited Actuals Financial Report Alternate Form for reporting financial data and where can it be found?

  From: Members' Blog. Published October 18, 2012. Last Modified October 18, 2012.

• CCSA Answers: Eligibility for SB 740 Funding

   

  Question: Are charter schools, leasing a district facility at market rate, eligible for SB 740 funding? Specifically, are charter schools leasing from an "unlike" district (i.e. a charter high school leasing district facilities from an elementary school district), eligible?

  From: Members' Blog. Published October 5, 2012. Last Modified October 5, 2012.