WSR 14-02-060
PERMANENT RULES
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
[Filed December 26, 2013, 11:37 a.m., effective January 26, 2014]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The purpose of this rule is to specify the timeline, content and process for charter school authorizers under RCW 28A.710.080 to submit annual reports to the state board of education, as directed in RCW 28A.710.100(4).
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.710.100.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 13-16-088 on August 6, 2013.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version:
Adds subsection (2)(c) requiring the authorizer to report the names and job titles of any employees or contractors to whom the school district has delegated responsibilities under RCW 28A.710.100, with contact information for each.
Strikes "at-risk students served" in subsection (2)(f)(ii) and inserts language requiring each authorizer to report, for each charter school, enrollment for each student subgroup as defined in RCW 28A.300.042.
Strikes in two places, for clarity, "in statistical relation to" and substitutes "in comparison to."
Inserts, in subsection (2)(g), language requiring the authorizer to report the financial performance of the charter school in absolute values and in comparison to the annual performance targets set by the authorizer under RCW 28A.710.170.
Inserts subsection (2)(h), requiring the authorizer to report the organizational performance of the governing board of each operating charter school overseen by the authorizer.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: November 15, 2013.
Ben Rarick
Executive Director
NEW SECTION
WAC 180-19-210 Annual report by authorizer.
(1) Each authorizer must, no later than November 1st of each year starting in 2014, submit an annual report to the state board of education meeting the requirements of RCW 28A.710.100(4). The board shall develop and post on its web site by September 1st of each year a standard form which must be used, and instructions which must be followed by each authorizer in making its report. The completed report must be sent via electronic mail to sbe@k12.wa.us and shall be posted on the board's web site.
(2) The report must include:
(a) The date of authorizer approval by the board;
(b) The names and job titles of district personnel having principal authorizing responsibilities with contact information for each;
(c) The names and job titles of any employees or contractors to whom the district has delegated responsibilities under RCW 28A.710.100, with contact information for each;
(d) An executive summary including, but not limited to, an overview of authorizing activity during the prior year and the status and performance of the charter schools authorized;
(e) The authorizer's strategic vision for chartering, as submitted to the state board under WAC 180-19-030 (3)(a), and its assessment of progress toward achieving that vision;
(f) The status of the authorizer's charter school portfolio, identifying all charter schools in each of the following categories:
(i) Approved but not yet open, including for each, the targeted student population and the community the school hopes to serve; the location or geographic area proposed for the school; the projected enrollment; the grades to be operated each year of the term of the charter contract; the names of and contact information for the governing board, and the planned date for opening;
(ii) Operating, including for each, location; grades operated; enrollment in total and by grade; and for each student subgroup as defined in RCW 28A.300.042 in totals and as percentages of enrollment;
(iii) Charter renewed with date of renewal;
(iv) Charter transferred to another authorizer during the prior year, with date of transfer;
(v) Charter revoked during the prior year with date of and reasons for revocation;
(vi) Voluntarily closed;
(vii) Never opened, with no planned date for opening.
(g) The academic performance of each operating charter school overseen by the authorizer, based on the authorizer's performance framework, including:
(i) Student achievement on each of the required indicators of academic performance in RCW 28A.710.170 (2)(a) through (f), as applicable by grade, in absolute values and in comparison to the annual performance targets set by the charter school under RCW 28A.710.170(3). Student academic proficiency, student academic growth, achievement gaps, graduation rates and postsecondary readiness must be included as reported in the achievement index developed by the state board of education under RCW 28A.657.110.
(ii) Student achievement on each additional indicator of academic performance the authorizer has chosen to include in its performance framework to augment external evaluations of performance, in absolute values and in comparison to the annual performance targets set by the authorizer under RCW 28A.710.170.
(iii) Student achievement on each indicator must be disaggregated by major student subgroups including gender, race and ethnicity, poverty status, special education status, English language learner status, and highly capable status as required of performance frameworks in RCW 28A.710.170.
(h) The financial performance of each operating charter school overseen by the authorizer, based on the indicators and measures of financial performance and sustainability in the authorizer's performance framework, in absolute values and in comparison to the annual performance targets set by the authorizer under RCW 28A.710.170;
(i) The organizational performance of the governing board of each operating charter school overseen by the authorizer, based on the indicators and measures of organizational performance in the authorizer's performance framework, including compliance with all applicable laws, rules and terms of the charter contract;
(j) The authorizer's operating costs and expenses for the prior year for fulfilling the responsibilities of an authorizer as enumerated in RCW 28A.710.100(1) and provided under the terms of each charter contract, detailed in annual financial statements that conform with generally accepted accounting principles and applicable reporting and accounting requirements of the office of the superintendent of public instruction;
(k) The contracted, fee-based services purchased from the authorizer by the charter schools under its jurisdiction under RCW 28A.710.110, including a brief description of each service purchased, an itemized accounting of the revenue received from the schools for the services, and the actual costs of these services to the authorizer.