How Charter Schools Affect School Districts - CBS 12 Action News

How Charter Schools Affect School Districts - CBS 12 Action News

How Charter Schools Affect School Districts

Last Update: 10/29 6:59 pm

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Administrators and charter school directors agree that more schools means better options for students, but when students leave district schools in favor of charters they take valuable funds with them. Chico Unified Assistant Superintendent Bob Feaster told Action News "everyone of those students takes with them what we call the base revenue limit. Which is something around $5,000 to $5,500 that each student takes with them to that charter school that had that student stayed in Chico Unified would have stayed with us." With hundreds of students making the move to charter schools those lost funds add up quickly. Feaster says "a significant part of that impact of charter schools, to the extent that a school takes 100 students, we've got to be nimble enough to reduce the next year by 3 teachers." Feaster added that the district has had to release 114 teachers in the last three years, and with the popularity of charter schools growing the district may have to let go of more next year. CUSD Charter School Liaison John Bohannon told our crews there are other drawbacks to the current charter school system including stability. "Theres studies