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By: Olympia Meola
Published: June 23, 2010 4:01 PM
The Virginia Board of Education’s charter school committee met this afternoon to get advice from a panel of national experts on how to go about designing their application review process.
The board members are tasked—through legislation pushed by Gov. Bob McDonnell—with establishing procedures for receiving and reviewing charter school applications before they are submitted to a local school board for an approval or denial.
The state education board will review the applications and make a determination on whether the application meets the criteria developed by the board. It is to look specifically at feasibility, curriculum, financial soundness and “other objective criteria” the board establishes.
That process is what the board’s committee is trying to shape now.
Several of the experts stressed the importance of a strong application review process. Making sure quality charter school applications make it before the local school boards for a decision will make for stronger charter schools in the long run, they said.
The charter committee will meet again in July and is expected to bring their recommendations to the full Board of Education in November.
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