Lowell School District Policy and Requirements
I received a response from Walt about Lowell’s charter school policy. My email to Walt and Dennis: ———- Thanks for meeting with us last week and giving us a tour of Lundy. One of the steps for creating a charter school is to: Obtain a copy of the sponsoring districts policy for accepting and processing charter school proposals I’ve checked your web site and found the following documents. Policy LBE 082806 – http://www2.lowell.k12.or.us/district/policies/Policy%20LBE%20082806.pdf Policy LBE AR 112210 –...
read moreReviewing the list
I’m reviewing the Starting a Charter School list. For #9 “Contact your local school district representatives to discuss requirements, formats and timelines for your proposal.” this was completed with our meeting with Walt, Dennis, and Mike last week, but we haven’t “Obtained a copy of the their policy for accepting and processing charter school proposals”. I’m going to email Dennis and Walt to make sure the docs I found on their web site:...
read moreOur Tour of Lundy
Yesterday Dennis, Walt, Dave, and I toured the unused space in the back wing of Lundy. It’s a lot of space and it doesn’t look that bad. Lowell is currently using it for storage, so almost all of the classrooms are full of school equipment. Here is a description of the space: Description Dimensions Square Feet Classroom #12 31′ X 21′ 651 Classroom #14 31′ X 21′ 651 Classroom #15 31′ X 21′ 651 Classroom #16 31′ X 21′ 651 Classroom #17 31′ X 21′ 651 Classroom #18 31′...
read moreOur Meeting With the Lowell School District
On Monday Laurie, Dionne, Dave, and I met with representatives from the Lowell School District about our charter school. The following people attended the meeting: Walt Hanline – superintendent Dennis McCallum – chairman of the board Mike Galvin – board member Kay Graham – high school principal The meeting went very well. We all introduced ourselves discussed our past experiences and then he started talking about having us chartering with them. He and Dennis both believe that the board will approve our charter and they...
read moreStatus Update
With the busyness of the summer there hasn’t been a lot of movement on the charter school. Laurie and Dionne met with the new superintendent of the Lowell School District a couple of weeks ago. He is interested in forming a partnership with our group and would like to discuss our charter school proposal. Laurie, Dave, Dionne, and I are going to meet with him and some Lowell board members tomorrow night to discuss how we can partner together. Laurie and I met with Dave Rommel last week to review our charter school plans. He was very...
read moreLocation and Land
The building and location plan is not part of our initial proposal, but this could be one of the most time consuming items, so I want to try and focus a couple of hours a week on it. Our plans for buildings and grounds have been explained in a previous post. In order to make our school cost effective and to ensure as much money as possible goes to educating our students we will need to have the land donated. Here is the direction I want to take for land: Land donation from Weyerhauser Land donation from Seneca Oregon Parks and Recreation...
read moreSpecial Education
Our proposal needs the following section added to it: Arrangement for any special education and related services provided pursuant to ORS 338.165 for children with disabilities who may attend the school. This section needs to explain how the school will provide services for children with disabilities who enroll. The sponsoring school district has the responsibility of providing FAPE (free appropriate public education) to students with disabilities enrolled in charter schools. The district is responsible for the oversight of special education...
read moreWoodland Charter proposal
I’ve received a copy of the Woodland Charter proposal. It can be downloaded here.
read moreOur Location and Building
The legal address, facilities, and physical location are not required on the proposal, but I feel the need to explain my thoughts on this to everyone. I believe that the school being built these days are an enormous waste of money. Educating children is a very simple process that doesn’t require vaulted ceilings, gymnasiums, golf course like landscaping, and enormous windowed entrances. All of these things are enjoyed by the students and parents and they help the process, but they are not required. Below you will find the list of...
read moreAdmission, Behavior, and Financial Management System
I’ve started work on the Admission, Behavior, and Financial Management System sections of our proposal. For the FMS section they state that you have to comply with ORS 327.511. I took a look at ORS 327.511, but it doesn’t list out specifically what the requirement is. Taking a look at the Charter School Handbook and I found a reference to OAR 581-023-0035. This is where I found the following: Rules governing the budgeting and accounting systems for schools and the school systems of accounts are contained in Chapter 2 of the...
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