Washington Administrative Code › Title 180 - Education, State Board of › Chapter 180-19 - Charter schools › Section 180-19-010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) "At-risk student" or "systemically
			 marginalized student" means a student who has an academic or economic
			 disadvantage that requires assistance or special services to succeed in
			 educational programs. The term includes, but is not limited to, students who do
			 not meet minimum standards of academic proficiency, students who are at risk of
			 dropping out of high school, students in chronically lowperforming schools,
			 students with higher than average disciplinary sanctions, students with lower
			 participation rates in advanced or gifted programs, students who are limited in
			 English proficiency, students who are members of economically disadvantaged
			 families, and students who are identified as having special educational
			 needs.
(2) "Authorizer" means a
			 school district board of directors that has been approved to be a charter
			 school authorizer under
			 RCW
			    28A.710.090 and the charter school commission
			 established under
			 RCW
			    28A.710.070.
(3) "Board" means the state board of
			 education.
(4) "Charter contract"
			 means a fixed term, renewable contract between a charter school and an
			 authorizer that outlines the roles, powers, responsibilities, and performance
			 expectations for each party to the contract.
(5) "School district" or "district" means a
			 school district board of directors.
(6) "Charter school" or "charter public
			 school" means a public school that is established in accordance with chapter
			 28A.710 RCW, governed by a charter school board, and operated according to the
			 terms of a charter contract executed under this chapter.
(7) "Charter school board" means the board of
			 directors appointed or selected under the terms of a charter application to
			 manage and operate the charter school.
(8) "Commission" means the Washington state
			 charter school commission established in
			 RCW
			    28A.710.070.
(9) "
NACSA Principles and
			 Standards
" means the "
Principles and Standards for Quality
			 Charter Authorizing
(2015 Edition or most current edition)" developed
			 by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).
(10) "High percentage of charter school
			 closures" means a higher percentage of closures than the national charter
			 school closure rate as reported by NACSA.
(11) "Parent" means a parent, guardian, or
			 other person or entity having legal custody of a child.
(12) "Student" means a child eligible to
			 attend a public school in the state.
(13) "Undeveloped" means that the application
			 response is wholly inadequate in that the applicant has not considered or
			 anticipated the welldeveloped practice at all, or proposes to carry out its
			 authorizing duties in a way that is not recognizably connected to the
			 expectations established by the board and the
NACSA Principles and
			 Standards
.
(14) "Partially
			 developed" means that the application response contains some aspects of a
			 welldeveloped practice, is limited in its execution, or otherwise falls short
			 of satisfying the expectations established by the board and the
NACSA
			 Principles and Standards
.
(15) "Well-developed" means that the
			 application response meets the expectations established by the board and the
NACSA Principles and Standards
in material respects and
			 warrants approval subject to execution of an authorizing contract with the
			 board.
(16) "Persistently
			 unsatisfactory performance of an authorizer's portfolio of charter schools"
			 shall consist, for any school or schools, of:
(a) Repeated failure during a contract term,
			 or consecutive contract terms, to meet the expectations for academic
			 performance set forth in the charter contract including, but not limited to,
			 applicable state and federal accountability requirements, without evidence of a
			 trend indicating the school will meet those expectations;
(b) Repeated failure during a contract term,
			 or consecutive contract terms, to meet the financial performance targets within
			 the charter contract;
(c) Repeated
			 failure during a contract term, or consecutive contract terms, to meet the
			 targets for organizational performance within the charter contract.