Washington Administrative Code › Title 180 - Education, State Board of › Chapter 180-19 - Charter schools › Section 180-19-210 - Annual report by authorizer

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Each
			 authorizer must, no later than January 21st of each year, submit an annual
			 report to the state board of education meeting the requirements of
			 RCW
			    28A.710.100(4). The board
			 shall develop and post on its website by June 1st of each year a standard form
			 which must be used, and instructions which must be followed by each authorizer
			 in making its report. The completed report must be sent via electronic mail to
			 sbe@k12.wa.us and shall be posted on the board's website.
(2) The report of district authorizers must
			 include the information in (a) through (k) of this subsection, and the report
			 of the commission must include (d) through (k) of this subsection:
(a) The date of authorizer approval by the
			 board;
(b) The names and job titles
			 of district personnel having principal authorizing responsibilities with
			 contact information for each;
(c)
			 The names and job titles of any employees or contractors to whom the district
			 has delegated responsibilities under
			 RCW
			    28A.710.100, with contact information for
			 each;
(d) An executive summary
			 including, but not limited to, an overview of authorizing activity during the
			 prior year and the status and performance of the charter schools
			 authorized;
(e) The authorizer's
			 strategic vision for chartering, as submitted to the state board under WAC
			 180-19-035
			 (1)(a), and its assessment of progress toward
			 achieving that vision;
(f) The
			 status of the charter school portfolio, identifying all charter schools in each
			 of the following categories:
(i) Approved but
			 not yet open, including for each, the targeted student population and the
			 community the school hopes to serve; the location or geographic area proposed
			 for the school; the projected enrollment; the grades to be operated each year
			 of the term of the charter contract; the names of and contact information for
			 the charter school board, and the planned date for opening;
(ii) Operating, including for each, location;
			 grades operated; enrollment in total and by grade; and for each student
			 subgroup as defined in
			 RCW
			    28A.300.042 in totals and as percentages of
			 enrollment;
(iii) Charter renewed
			 with date of renewal;
(iv) Charter
			 transferred to another authorizer during the prior year, with date of
			 transfer;
(v) Charter revoked
			 during the prior year with date of and reasons for revocation;
(vi) Voluntarily closed;
(vii) Never opened, with no planned date for
			 opening.
(g) The
			 academic performance of each operating charter school overseen by the
			 authorizer, based on the authorizer's performance framework, including:
(i) Student achievement on each of the
			 required indicators of academic performance in
			 RCW
			    28A.710.170 (2)(a) through
			 (f), as applicable by grade, in absolute
			 values and in comparison to the annual performance targets set by the charter
			 school under
			 RCW
			    28A.710.170(3). Student
			 academic proficiency, student academic growth, achievement gaps, graduation
			 rates and postsecondary readiness must be included as reported in the
			 achievement index developed by the state board of education under
			 RCW
			    28A.657.110.
(ii) Student achievement on each additional
			 indicator of academic performance the authorizer has chosen to include in its
			 performance framework to augment external evaluations of performance, in
			 absolute values and in comparison to the annual performance targets set by the
			 authorizer under
			 RCW
			    28A.710.170.
(iii) Student achievement on each indicator
			 must be disaggregated by major student subgroups including gender, race and
			 ethnicity, poverty status, special education status, English language learner
			 status, and highly capable status as required of performance frameworks in
			 RCW
			    28A.710.170.
(h) The financial performance of each
			 operating charter school overseen by the authorizer, based on the indicators
			 and measures of financial performance and sustainability in the authorizer's
			 performance framework, in absolute values and in comparison to the annual
			 performance targets set by the authorizer under
			 RCW
			    28A.710.170;
(i) The organizational performance of the
			 charter school board of each operating charter school overseen by the
			 authorizer, based on the indicators and measures of organizational performance
			 in the authorizer's performance framework, including compliance with all
			 applicable laws, rules and terms of the charter contract;
(j) Assessment of the adequacy of the
			 authorizer oversight fee, operating costs and expenses for the prior year for
			 fulfilling the responsibilities enumerated in
			 RCW
			    28A.710.100(1) and provided
			 under the terms of each charter contract, detailed in annual financial
			 statements that conform with generally accepted accounting principles and
			 applicable reporting and accounting requirements of the office of the
			 superintendent of public instruction;
(k) The contracted, fee-based services
			 purchased from the authorizer by the charter schools under its jurisdiction
			 under RCW    28A.710.110, including a
			 brief description of each service purchased, an itemized accounting of the
			 revenue received from the schools for the services, and the actual costs of
			 these services to the authorizer.