Delaware House Bill 380 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-5)
Status: Introduced on June 7 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-06-07 - Introduced in House and assigned to Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill revises the Delaware Charter School law to require that all charter school applications be submitted to local school boards for review and consideration. The bill requires local school boards to conduct a face-to-face meeting with the charter school applicant to review and discuss the application. The bill requires a local school board denying a charter school application to state its reasons in writing, including an impact statement regarding the projected effect of the charter school upon the enrollment, programs and financial operation of the public school district. School boards are to forward a copy of the denial letter and impact statement to the Secretary of Education. A charter applicant whose application is denied by a local school board may submit its application to the Department of Education. All charter school applications approved after June 30, 2012 require admissions lottery to include students from the entire school district in which the charter school is located. This bill makes other revisions to the Delaware Charter School law in light of the 17 years’ experience since its passage in 1995.

An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Charter Schools.

Sen. Patricia Blevins [D]	Sen. George Bunting [D]	Sen. Anthony DeLuca [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]
Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. James Johnson [D]	Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. Harvey Kenton [R]
Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Michael Mulrooney [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]
Rep. William Outten [R]	Rep. Harold Peterman [R]	Sen. Karen Peterson [D]	Rep. Darryl Scott [D]
Rep. Bryon Short [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Sen. Robert Venables [D]	Rep. John Viola [D]
Sen. David Wilson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-06-07		Introduced in House and assigned to Education Committee
2012-06-07		Assigned to Education Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/6d64c15032262d1f85257a0000531f36?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+380/$file/legis.html?open