Today I spent some time researching charter school information.
The State defines a charter school as “a comprehensive public school operated by a group of parents, teachers, and/or community members as a semi-autonomous school of choice”
Private schools may not convert to charter schools. This is an important restriction for our team to keep in mind. All of the members of the team are also affiliated with the Fall Creek Home School Academy which is a private school. I’ve contacted Kate Pattison with the ODE to make sure this won’t be an issue as long as we keep the two endeavors separate.
Purpose of Charter Schools – an avenue for parents, teachers, and community members to “take responsible risks to create new, innovative, more flexible ways of educating all children within the public school system”
All charter school employees belong to the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)
(charter school handbook progress) page 7 paragraph 1
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