Posts made in April, 2013

Jessica has completed the curriculum section of our Proposal – http://www.fallcreekcharter.com/our-proposal/. Thanks Jess.

In a previous post I mentioned that I emailed a question to the TSPC. Here’s my questions:

What is the difference between being licensed with the TSPC and registered with the TSPC? I’m starting a charter school and ORS 338.135 says that 50% of our FTE teaching and administrative staff shall be licensed. It also says that the other 50% need to be registered.

and here is their response:

A registration is usually for someone that has not completed a teacher education program or has not met full requirements to hold a full time state teaching license. In all cases teachers must meet HQ requirements.”

I’ve also emailed them the following additional questions:

• If our charter school is going to employ a non licensed administrator and this person is already licensed with the TSPC as a teacher does this license fulfill the requirement set forth by ORS 338.135? Or do they need to fill out a separate Form C-1 and check the “Charter School Registration: Administrator”?
• If we want to employ an administrator that is not licensed, does the administrator need to meet HQ requirements? Or do we just need to make sure they are registered with the TSPC by filling out Form C-1 and checking the “Charter School Registration: Administrator”?

Substitutes

I’ve updated the budget with our substitute costs for the first year. ORS 342.610 defines the minimum salary for substitute teachers. You cannot pay subs less per day than 85% of the salary of a beginning teacher who holds a bachelor’s degree. The salary of the substitute teacher shall be computed as required in this subsection based on the statewide average salary for beginning teachers who hold bachelor’s degrees. The 2013-2014 numbers are located on the OSBA Substitute teacher pay web page. I estimated our substitute teacher pay at $171.

PERS

The Charter School Handbook states that all charter school employees belong to the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). I’m confident that we can limit our employees to teachers only. I think only employing teachers should be a goal of ours. Administrators and other employees can be hired through a third party contracting firm.

I made a few minor changes to the web site. The style sheet has been updated, so that nested bullets are styled identically to MS Word.

• apples
  • kale
  • lettuce
    • raspberry
    • strawberry
  • celery
• bananas
• kiwi

1. altoids
   1. peppermint
      1. metal
      2. plastic
   2. spearmint
2. mentos
3. certs

I also added a print button to the bottom of each page. This allows you to print the page without the top header and the right side navigation.