CACSA Monthly Authorizer-Only Call: Wed. April 20, 12:00 to 1:30 pm
The regular CACSA monthly call is scheduled for Wednesday, April 20, from noon to 1:30 pm. These authorizer-only calls include a brief update from CACSA, a round robin discussion among all members, and a consultancy on a problem of practice. This month’s consultancy topic will be shared by District 11. They are working with a charter applicant that has been approved by the district but may not be ready to open on time. The district is interested in discussing various strategies to counsel the applicant, and how to manage contracting and pre-opening benchmarks for a school that will likely struggle with enrollment and could face other opening issues as well. This is relatively common recently, so the discussion should be useful to many districts. Login information below:
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Policy Changes Move Forward Regarding School Choice & Students with Disabilities
Colorado continues on a path to make significant changes in how students with disabilities participate in school choice and in how the legal responsibilities and services for students with disabilities are structured in some charter schools.
On April 13, the State Board of Education unanimously approved a second set of new rules (see April 13, 2022, agenda, and click on item #9.01 to access related documents).
The latest revisions amended Colorado’s Exceptional Children’s Education Act (ECEA). An earlier set of rule changes affected the charter school and authorizer standards. The new round of changes affect the procedures that districts and charter schools use to determine whether a student with disabilities can be served appropriately in a charter school their family has chosen. Under the new rules, decisions to locate a student elsewhere must include the student’s family, should be based on that student’s specific needs and analysis of whether the chosen school can provide the student with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). These changes now affect all forms of public school choice in Colorado, including inter- and intra-district school choice, magnet schools, innovation schools and other forms of public school choice.