SBE’s charter network struggles like other schools with federal AYP
By Tom Chorneau
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
A new report on the performance of the sprawling network of charter schools under the management of the California State Board of Education found most made progress last year – although like the majority of all other schools statewide, most board-authorized charters also failed to meet federal benchmarks.
The state board is empowered to authorize new charter schools, under certain conditions. Currently, the SBE has oversight of 32 charters and one that is set to open in 2013-14.
Out of that total, 21 failed to meet federal performance requirements as dictated under the No Child Left Behind Act and will be required to submit to a remediation plan to the state. Ten of the board-authorized charters have failed to meet the federal Adequate Yearly Progress for a second year.
Those numbers are not out of step with the rest of California last year, where 27 percent of elementary schools, 18 percent of middle schools, and 28 percent of high schools made AYP targets.
However, as defined by the Academic Performance Index state officials note that virtually all of the board-authorized
