The Budget
I’ve come up with the following process for creating and approving our budget. Review the Vision and Mission Statement List out the services and resources we want to provide based on our vision and mission statement. Determine the number of students we want to provide our services to. Calculate the number of teachers needed. This calculation is based on the max students per teacher minus 5 and then dividing that number by the number of students. List out all of the expenses incurred by providing our services and resources. List out the...
read moreBudget and financial plan
I’ve decided to start focusing on the budget and financial plan part of the proposal. This is really the only deal breaker. If we can’t afford to offer services based on our vision and mission statement then we will need to make some changes or pursue a different avenue to help education the children in our community. The key concept around this budget is to determine what services we want to provide. These services need to be driven by our vision and mission statement. I don’t want us to ever base the services we want to...
read moreThe proposal
We’ve completed all of the pre proposal steps on the Starting a Charter School page. I’ve created a new page named “Our Proposal”. This page will contain our proposal. I’m going to try to keep the actual proposal on the web site instead of creating a separate document. Progress: Started work on the school founders section, but I kept getting stuck. I’m going to wait till our next meeting and discuss this section with the group. I put our name as Lorem Ipsum Academy until we make a decision on the name. I...
read moreLowell School District Charter School Policy
The Lowell School District has two policies that relate to charter schools. Policy Document 1 LBE Policy Document 2 LBE-AR
read moreOur School Name
During our last meeting we discussed the name of our school. We decided to change the name from “Fall Creek Charter” to something that isn’t tied to a city. The list of names from our email thread are: Top 6 Mountain View Charter mountainviewcharter.org – available mountainviewschool.org – available mountainviewacademy.org – taken Heritage Charter heritagecharter.org – taken heritageschool.org – taken heritageacademy.org – taken River View Academy riverviewcharter.org – available...
read moreMeeting with Paul Randall
Last Friday night Dionne, Laurie, and I met with Paul Randall. He is the former administrator at Ridgeline and has served on the board of the Coburg Charter. Here is what we learned. We don’t have to bus the kids. We might be able to provide guaranteed admittance to children of employees. Most schools don’t fill up in year 1, so we shouldn’t be worried about our children having to participate in a lottery. Start a new charter school instead of converting an existing public school. Conversion was used when their was seed...
read morePreparing for our first meeting
Here are some questions I need to answer before our meeting tomorrow: What is a virtual public charter school? a public charter school that provides online courses does not include a public charter school that primarily serves students in a physical location How do you convert a portion of an existing public school? I’m not sure. ORS 338.035 gives options on how a charter school may be established. Item (c) is From an existing public school or a portion of the school. It doesn’t provide any additional details. Can “Starting...
read moreCharter School Stats
123 charter schools in Oregon Types: 102 Brick & Mortar 12 Virtual 9 Hybrid Sponsor Types: 102 Multi-School School District 16 Single School School District 4 State Hybrid: A brick and mortar charter school that also offers multiple online courses. Multi-School District: A school district that has more than one school. Single School District: A district where the only school in the district is a charter...
read morehigher ed sponsorship
Today I updated the higher ed sponsorship section on the proposal page. They have to use the same evaluation criteria that the school board uses with one additional item. They can disapprove the proposal if it doesn’t align with their mission. The institutes main campus must also be located within 25 miles of the charter school. That leaves Lane Community College and the University of Oregon as options. Here are their mission statements: Lane Community College Lane is the community’s college; we provide comprehensive, accessible,...
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