{"id":1605,"date":"2011-12-06T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2011-12-11T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T18:26:09","slug":"draft2-charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2011\/12\/06\/draft2-charter-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"School Choice –> Interdistrict –> CHARTER SCHOOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charter Schools[1. \u201cSDE: Charter Schools,\u201d Connecticut State Department of Education, 2011, http:\/\/www.sde.ct.gov\/sde\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2681&q=320438.]
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\nAs one of the options within the Interdistrict school track, charter schools are public, non-profit school systems that are not run by the \u201clocal or regional board of education.\u201d[2. \u201cSDE: Charter Schools,\u201d Connecticut State Department of Education, 2011, http:\/\/www.sde.ct.gov\/sde\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2681&q=320438.] Charter schools are giving students better options to attend public schools with independence from the individual area school boards. \u00a0Also, similar to the magnet schools and open choice program in the area, Charter schools want to decrease racial, ethnic, and cultural separation in Hartford public schools. \u00a0Charter schools also aim to provide new and creative ways of educating students. \u00a0The Connecticut State Department of Education has a brochure[2. \u201cChoose Success! Public School Choice for Students and Their Families\u201d (Connecticut State Department of Education, 2012 2011), www.sde.ct.gov\/sde\/lib\/sde\/pdf\/equity\/choice\/public_school_choice_2011.pdf.]<\/a> that includes some frequently asked questions regarding charter schools, as well as a comprehensive list of all of the charter schools in the area.
\nCharter school choice has the same application and lottery process as Open Choice does. \u00a0The family fills out an application for the student who wishes to attend a Hartford charter school, and they are placed in a lottery. \u00a0If the student\u2019s number is chosen, they are able to choose which charter school they wish to go to. \u00a0If their number is not called, parents must fill out a new application for the next school year and try again. The application for the Charter schools[3. Mark McQuillan, \u201cApplication Packet for the Development of State and Local Charter Schools\u201d (Connecticut State Department of Education Office of the Commissioner Hartford, 2011), www.sde.ct.gov\/sde\/lib\/sde\/PDF\/rfp\/RFP020_charter_school_application_10.pdf.]<\/a> is a much larger document with step-by-step instructions of how to follow the process.
\nThe Charter schools have some limitations with applicant numbers that could potentially affect whether or not a student gets into the lottery. \u00a0For example, \u201cNo state charter school may enroll more than 250 students or 25 percent of the enrollment of the school district in which the state charter school is to be located, whichever is less, except in the case of a kindergarten to eighth-grade school, which may enroll up to 300 students.\u201d[4. \u201cSDE: Charter Schools,\u201d Connecticut State Department of Education, 2011, http:\/\/www.sde.ct.gov\/sde\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2681&q=320438.] According to this same document, transportation is provided to students by the local district\u2019s board of education. \u00a0For example, if a student lives in Avon but applies to a Charter school in Hartford, the Hartford public school district is responsible for busing that student to and from school everyday at no cost to the family. \u00a0The Charter schools are a great choice for families and students who are looking to achieve a new and more independent outlook on teaching and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charter Schools[1. \u201cSDE: Charter Schools,\u201d Connecticut State Department of Education, 2011, http:\/\/www.sde.ct.gov\/sde\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2681&q=320438.] As one of the options within the Interdistrict school track, charter schools are public, non-profit school systems that are not run by the \u201clocal or regional board of education.\u201d[2. \u201cSDE: Charter Schools,\u201d Connecticut State Department of Education, 2011, http:\/\/www.sde.ct.gov\/sde\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2681&q=320438.] Charter schools are giving … Continue reading School Choice –> Interdistrict –> CHARTER SCHOOLS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}