Charter School Update

By Children Rising | March 9, 2012

You may have heard this already: ASCEND and Learning Without Limits–two schools that applied to become charter schools in the fall–had their proposals rejected by the OUSD board. What you might not have heard is that the schools might become a hybrid of a charter district school in what is known as a “partnership” school.

As a partnership school, ASCEND and Learning Without Limits would be able to receive public and private funding among a host of other agreement struck between the OUSD board and these two schools.
Please take a look at this article to read a bit more about the preliminary discourse.

The board met with school officials this Wednesday, and the schools decided to become charter schools in a partnership with the Oakland district. This would minimize the financial blow for OUSD, and it would also allow the schools much more freedom than they have within the district.
Also, after two years, the schools will be called to evaluate the option of re-joining the district.
Read Katy Murphy’s article for more information about the meeting’s results.