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Charter School Association of Nevada
Legislative Outlook 2017
Chartering better education for Nevada
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Thank you Chairman Thompson and
Nevada Charter School--Leaders, Parents & Teachers
for not passing A.B. 212
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Thank you, because
your
citizen voices were heard by the Chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, and the sponsor of the proposed amendment that CSAN informed you about tuesday.
The amended version of A.B. 212
would have required Nevada charter schools to use the state and local school district [and
not, your individual school's performance standards] to evaluate your charter's teachers and administrators.
Individual
autonomy, innovation and
flexible personalized-learning models are what makes charter schools unique for those who send their children to them, and to those who teach and lead in our charter schools.
Let's keep it that way.
Nevada's Charter School Community responded in a big way to
CSAN's request to contact your lawmakers. Because you
did--A.B. 212, with its chilling amendment--
will not become a Nevada law.
Thank you...
Pat Hickey
, Executive Director, CSAN
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Dear Education Committee
:
"Please vote Yes on A.B. 49."
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Every Legislative Session Nevada's Charter School Authority gets one bill to to clarify, modernize, and change [if necessary] laws pertaining to charters schools in the Silver State. A.B. 49 (with proposed amendments) is the 2017 piece of legislation to make those changes to charter school law. Over the past several months, the Charter School Authority’s Executive Director has worked to get feedback on this bill and has compromised extensively in response to school concerns. As a result of this collaboration, CSAN’s Board supports A.B. 49 with the amendments that were committed to by the Authority.
Important elements of the bill include:
- Clarifying how a charter school can succeed in qualifying to be rated using the alternative performance framework by the State Board.
- Provides-- for the first time in history-- an avenue for parents not only to voice their concerns, but also to have them addressed by the Authority while safeguarding the autonomy of charter schools by creating a process for filing complaints.
- Revising qualifications for the composition of the Charter Authority Board to avoid certain conflicts-of-interest.
- Clarifies and revises certain "alternative routes to licensure" for proved high-performing charter schools in Nevada.
CSAN
urges the Chairman of Assembly Education to move
A.B. 49
[with its proposed amendments that reflect significant input from the charter school sector] to
"Work Session"
tomorrow in the Assembly Education Committee. To not allow this legislation to be processed--is to in effect, deny the representation of 30,000--plus charter school students, and their families in Nevada the opportunity to be properly regulated and self-governed.
Please, Chairman Thompson and Assembly Education Committee members--vote yes on this charter school education bill, which affects so many students.
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The 74 – April 11th, 2017
Bridging the Charter-District Divide:
When families think about their local school, what’s important is whether it will give their child a high-quality education, not whether it's a charter or traditional public school, writes contributor Richard Whitmire.
The Tennessean – April 10th, 2017
Dear MNPS School Board and Dr. Joseph: We are proud parents of Metro Nashville Public School students. Our children are among the thousands of students who have chosen to attend Nashville’s public charter schools. The 374 of us who have signed this letter have children attending the following public charter schools
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Opinion/Commentary Articles
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Please Note: The following is a sampling of opinion articles about charter schools that appeared in the media. The opinions in these articles do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Charter School Association of Nevada (CSAN).
American Enterprise Institute – April 12th, 2017
A big part of the reason I wrote this paper was to try to bring to bear on the broader public education system one of the key innovations of charter schooling, namely contract-based school accountability. Everyone knows that chartering taught public education a great deal about how to create new schools, how to empower non-profits to run public schools, and how to bring school choice into public education.
Las Vegas Review Journal – April 5th, 2017
A generation ago, school choice in Florida was on the fringe. Roughly 90 percent of students attended zoned neighborhood schools, or schools to which they were assigned for desegregation. Maybe 10 percent attended private schools. But for a few trend-setting magnet schools, that was it.
Today, choice in Florida is mainstream. Forty-five percent of all students in pre-K-12 — more than 1.6 million — now attend something other than their assigned schools.
NJ.COM– April 2nd, 2017
A generation ago, school choice in Florida was on the fringe. Roughly 90 percent of students attended zoned neighborhood schools, or schools to which they were assigned for desegregation. Maybe 10 percent attended private schools. But for a few trend-setting magnet schools, that was it.
Today, choice in Florida is mainstream. Forty-five percent of all students in pre-K-12 — more than 1.6 million — now attend something other than their assigned schools.
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Education Blogs, Forums and Resources
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