Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 210 - State Department of Education › Chapter 40 - Grants and Programs-In-Aid › Subchapter 87 - Charter Schools › Section 210:40-87-7 - Charter school contracts

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
Contract requirement.
The sponsor of a charter school must enter
				into a written contract with the governing body of the charter school. The
				initial contract for sponsorship shall be for a period of five (5) years. The
				contract must meet all statutory requirements listed in 70 O.S. §
				3-135(A). A charter contract may provide for one or more schools by the same
				applicant, to the extent approved by the sponsor and consistent with applicable
				law. An applicant or the governing board of an applicant may hold one or more
				charter contracts. Each charter school that is part of a charter contract shall
				be separate and distinct from any other charter school under the same charter
				contract, and the sponsor shall evaluate each charter school's performance
				separately.
(b)
Written
				procedure for consideration, approval, and disapproval.
Sponsors shall
				establish a written procedure and criteria for accepting, approving, and
				disapproving charter school applications in accordance with 70 O.S. §
				3-134(E). A copy of this procedure and criteria shall be made available on
				request to charter school applicants, potential applicants, and members of the
				public.
(c)
Performance
				provisions.
Each charter contract shall contain performance provisions
				based on a performance framework that sets forth the academic and operational
				performance indicators, measures, and metrics that will guide the sponsor's
				evaluations of the charter school. The sponsor shall not request any metric or
				data from a charter school that it does not produce or publish for all school
				sites in the district or under its sponsorship, unless the metric or data is
				unique to the charter school. To avoid duplication of administrative efforts,
				the sponsor shall require that data submitted under the performance provisions
				must be submitted by the charter school in the exact format required for
				submission of data to the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE).
				Alternately, a sponsor may allow a charter school to provide permission to OSDE
				to share data required by the performance framework with the sponsor of the
				school. The performance framework must include measures that indicate, at a
				minimum:
(1) Student academic proficiency;
(2) Student academic growth;
(3) Achievement gaps in both
				proficiency and growth among major student subgroups;
(4) Student attendance;
(5) Recurrent enrollment from year to year as
				determined by the methodology used for public schools in Oklahoma;
(6) In the case of high schools, graduation
				rates as determined by the methodology used for public schools in Oklahoma;
(7) In the case of high schools,
				postsecondary readiness;
(8)
				Financial performance and sustainability; and
(9) Governing board performance and
				stewardship, including compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and
				terms of the charter contract.