Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 10 - Education Institutions and Agencies › Part 402 - MCSAB Board Policies › Chapter 2 - Application Toolkit 2013 › Rule 10-402-2.1 - Introduction

Current through June 25, 2024
Introduction
This application toolkit is designed to provide guidance and
				  assistance to applicants for public charter schools in Mississippi. It also
				  includes templates for certain documents, which will be required in any
				  applications submitted in response to the Charter Schools Request for Proposals
				  2013.
Definitions
(a) "Applicant" means any person or group
				that develops and submits an application for a charter school to the
				authorizer.
(b) "Application" means
				a proposal from an applicant to the authorizer to enter into a charter contract
				whereby the proposed school obtains charter school status.
(c) "Authorizer" means the Mississippi
				Charter School Authorizer Board established under Section
				37-28-7
				to review applications, decide whether to approve or reject applications, enter
				into charter contracts with applicants, oversee charter schools, and decide
				whether to renew, not renew, or revoke charter contracts.
(d) "Charter contract" means a fixed-term,
				renewable contract between a charter school and the authorizer, which outlines
				the roles, powers, responsibilities and performance expectations for each party
				to the contract.
(e) "Charter
				school" means a public school that is established and operating under the terms
				of charter contract between the school's governing board and the authorizer.
				The term "charter school" includes a conversion charter school and start-up
				charter school.
(f) "Conversion
				charter school" means a charter school that existed as a noncharter public
				school before becoming a charter school.
(g) "Education service provider" means a
				charter management organization, school design provider or any other partner
				entity with which a charter school intends to contract for educational design,
				implementation or comprehensive management.
(h) "Governing board" means the independent
				board of a charter school which is party to the charter contract with the
				authorizer and whose members have been elected or selected pursuant to the
				school's application.
(i)
				"Noncharter public school" means a public school that is under the direct
				management, governance and control of a school board or the state.
(j) "Parent" means a parent, guardian or
				other person or entity having legal custody of a child.
(k) 'school board" means a school board
				exercising management and control over a local school district and the schools
				of that district pursuant to the State Constitution and state
				statutes.
(l) 'school district"
				means a governmental entity that establishes and supervises one or more public
				schools within its geographical limits pursuant to state statutes.
(m) 'start-up charter school" means a charter
				school that did not exist as a noncharter public school before becoming a
				charter school.
(n) 'student" means
				any child who is eligible for attendance in a public school in the
				state.
(o) "Underserved students"
				means students participating in the federal free lunch program who qualify for
				at-risk student funding under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program and
				students who are identified as having special educational needs.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-28-15