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Board Approves Charter Schools Plan |
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Joe Brennan |
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Sep 11, 2002 |
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The University of Toledo’s board of trustees today took the first official step towards ending UT’s direct involvement with charter schools when it approved a resolution instructing the University’s charter school council to grant no more charters this year and to begin negotiating for the eventual transfer of the seven schools it has sponsored to a new non-profit organization, the Toledo Charter School Council.
Several trustees say that a bill to allow non-profit organizations to establish charter schools, now pending in the State Senate, may become law by the end of this year. If this happens, the new Toledo Charter School Council would presumably gain independent authority to grant charters. In the meantime, it must operate as the board’s designee.
If the bill does not become law, and if the board and the new organization “fail to reach agreement on the terms and conditions of exercising the [UT board’s] sponsoring authority,” then, the resolution states, the board will “make every effort to assist the schools to transfer to other legally constituted sponsoring entities.”
Under the plan adopted today, the new organization would monitor the seven schools established under the board’s sponsoring authority. TCSC directors would elect two UT trustees to serve on its board. Contracts between the schools and the University’s current charter school council would be assigned to the new organization by mutual agreement with each school. After “a brief period to resolve all administrative issues” the University’s council would be dissolved.
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