Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part CXXXIX - Bulletin 126-Charter Schools › Chapter 3 - Charter School Authorizers › Section CXXXIX-313 - Local School Board Consideration of Charter Application, Awarding of Charters

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Local school
				boards shall carefully review each type 1 and type 3 charter school application
				they receive and may approve a charter application only after it has made a
				specific determination whether each proposed charter complies with the law and
				rules, whether the proposal is valid, complete, financially well-structured,
				and educationally sound, whether it provides for a master plan for improving
				behavior and discipline in accordance with
				R.S.
				17:252, whether it provides a plan for
				collecting data in accordance with
				R.S.
				17:3911.
B. Local school boards may approve requests
				to establish a type 3B charter school pursuant to the process outlined in
				Bulletin 129,
				§505
1. A type 3B charter school is a former type
				5 charter school transferred from the Recovery School District to the
				administration and management of the transferring local school system pursuant
				to
				R.S.
				17:10.5,
				R.S.
				17:10.7 and Bulletin 129, §505.
2. A type 3B charter school shall retain its
				type 5 academic accountability history, including, but not limited to prior
				school performance scores. The performance of a type 3B charter school shall be
				included in the local school districts district performance score.
3. Throughout initial and all subsequent
				renewal charter terms, the type 3B charter contract shall:
a. comply with any transfer conditions
				previously specified by BESE at the time BESE made the determination to allow
				the transfer;
b. permit the charter
				school to remain in its facility or designate an alternative facility for use
				by the charter school;
c. prohibit
				the charter school from establishing admissions requirements; and
d. require any school that participated as a
				type 5 charter school in unified processes common to other public schools
				located in the same parish or school district boundaries that are critical to
				providing equity and access to students and families to continue to participate
				in such processes. At a minimum, the contract shall require the charter school
				to:
i. continue to participate in any unified
				enrollment system and expulsion process established by the RSD for the parish
				or region where the charter school is located. The charter school shall follow
				all policies and procedures applicable to type 5 charter schools participating
				in the enrollment system and expulsion process; and
ii. continue to provide transportation
				services for students who reside more than one mile away from the
				school.
4. The
				length of the initial term for the type 3B charter school shall be equal to the
				number of years remaining on the charter schools former type 5 charter contract
				or the number of years approved by BESE for the renewal term of the type 5
				charter school if the charter contract for the type 5 charter school was set to
				expire at the conclusion of the school year in which the charter school makes a
				request to transfer to the local school board pursuant to this
				Section.
5. If granted a renewal,
				in determining the length of the term for the first renewal of the type 3B
				charter contract, the local school board shall set the length of the renewal
				term to be three or more years, not to exceed the number of years the charter
				school would be granted under the "maximum charter renewal terms" contained in
				§1503 of this Bulletin. Differing
				academic performance standards for the first renewal of the charter contract
				must be approved by BESE. Subsequent renewal term lengths shall be determined
				by the local school board.
6. At
				the time of transfer, the type 3B charter school shall have the option to
				remain its own local educational agency or have the local school system serve
				as the charter schools local education agency. A type 3B charter school acting
				as its own local education agency shall comply with the requirements provided
				for in §2303 of this
				bulletin.