1 / 32

School System Flexibility in Georgia Overview and Comparison

School System Flexibility in Georgia Overview and Comparison. What are we talking about and why?. Decision Considerations. * College & Career Readiness Performance Index. 3. Selecting a Flexibility Option.

wilmer
Download Presentation

School System Flexibility in Georgia Overview and Comparison

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. School System Flexibility in GeorgiaOverview and Comparison

  2. What are we talking about and why?

  3. Decision Considerations *College & Career Readiness Performance Index 3

  4. Selecting a Flexibility Option • By June 30, 2015* each local school system must choose to operate as one of the following: • Investing in Educational Excellence School System (IE2) • Charter System • Status Quo School System • Other options include: • Strategic School System • System of Charter Schools *Per OCGA §20-2-84.3

  5. Centralize or Decentralize? Decision Structure Considerations Are waivers needed? Yes Status Quo System of Charter Schools Charter System Strategic School System IE2 System Centralized or Decentralized Decentralized No Waivers

  6. Flexibility and Title 20 12

  7. Other Requirements

  8. Waiver Limitations 14

  9. Fiscal Impact

  10. Governance

  11. Same starting point as a conversion charter, but a different end point Different starting points, but same end point

  12. High Quality Charter School Governance Standards

  13. Charter System SchoolGoverning Council Autonomy The school should be as close to this end as possible • Indicators of Autonomy • Ability to set school budget spending priorities • Ability to make personnel decisions • Contracts for services provided by the district • Governing council members selected/recruited without district assistance

  14. Performance Evaluation

  15. Consequences

  16. Contractual Partners *Required by statute that the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement participate in the IE2 process.

  17. Length of Contract

  18. Charter System Application

  19. Strategic School System Application

  20. Petition Process

  21. Petition Approval Process LBOE GaDOE SBOE Conversion charter petition Approval Review and make recommendation to SBOE Approval New conversion charter school Y Y N N End End Review and make recommendation to SBOE Charter system petition Approval Approval Y Y New charter system N N End End Charter Advisory Committee review and recommendation to SBOE

  22. What is the Petition Review Process?

  23. Legal References

  24. Possible Legislation: Ga’s Statewide Tiered Accountability and Flexibility System (G-STAFS)

  25. Additional Information Louis Erste Director, Charter Schools Division lerste@doe.k12.ga.us 404-657-0515 Howard Hendley, Ed.D. Director, Policy Division hhendley@doe.k12.ga.us 404-657-2965 Morgan Felts Assistant Director, Charter Division mfelts@doe.k12.ga.us 404-656-0027 Allan Meyer Assistant Director, Policy Division ameyer@doe.k12.ga.us 404-657-1065 Garry McGiboney, Ph.D. Associate Superintendent gmcgiboney@doe.k12.ga.us 404-656-0619

More Related