Buses – I confirmed today in ORS 338.145 that charter schools are responsible for providing transportation to students who reside within the school district and attend the charter school. This is to bad. I had hoped we could require the parents to drive their children to school. I feel that the transportation of students to school is the parents responsibility. One thing we might be able to do is to provide this option, but explain to parents the cost saving benefits of not utilizing this service.
Food – It is not mandatory for a charter school to operate a Federal Child Nutrition program. Additionally it is not mandatory for a school district that sponsors a Federal Child Nutrition Program to offer the program in it’s charter school. A charter school may operate its own nutrition program without federal reimbursement, in which case there is no State and Federal program requirements. This is great news. Nothing frustrated me more than when my wife and I would make our daughter breakfast and then she would go to school and eat breakfast #2 consisting of sugar cereal or a microwaveable french toast sticks. Schools exist to teach children not feed them. I’d be really interested to see the dollar amount that the large food corporations paid lobbyists to persuade Congress to put the Federal Child Nutrition Program in place. Well enough of that rant 🙂
 Our facility – The facility we choose must conform to the following:
- ADA compliant
- Section 504 compliant
- Insured
- Meet all health and safety codes of the county and or city
- Meet the federal asbestos management requirements for school buildings
Special Education – We cannot adopt practices that screen out children with disabilities or otherwise treat children with disabilities differently than children without disabilities.
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