Clarity on WA State Charter Schools from Charter Commission? Fuhgeddaboudit
1. Forget about it - the issue is not worth the time, energy, mental effort, or emotional resources.2. Definitively "no."
That was one uneventful and less-than-insightful Charter Commission meeting.
There was a brief two minutes of administrative work (minutes), then about a 15-minute executive session and then about 15 minutes of real business.
What was that real business? Basically, giving the Executive Director, Joshua Halsey, the authority to do the work to shut down the Commission's operations.
Halsey did a "frame up" of where they are. He said the Supreme Court's ruling on reconsideration (and delay of implementation of ruling) left the Commission in "unprecedented territory." He said their office had talked to other state agencies, archives, Governor's office and Auditor's office about how to bring "this agency to a close and wind down operations." (No date given but probably by the end of next week.)
He also said that they"may need to bring the contracts w/schools to a wind-down and working with OSPI about how that process may work. He said there are rules within the law about closing a charter contract but not under these conditions and timeline.
If a school does want to end its contract, it will go thru Halsey.
Chair Steve Sundquist asked about Seattle Schools Community Forum: Clarity on WA State Charter Schools from Charter Commission? Fuhgeddaboudit: