Project 720
Feb. 20th, 2008 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianJust got off the phone with the state contact for Project 720 and received some clarifications:
1) Some exclusions are based on the definitions of "school entity" within the scope of the various legislation. If cyber charter schools are not defined as a school entity for a particular piece of legislation, then it does not apply to them.
Some of the legislation I looked at the other night does include charter schools and cyber charter schools as school entities. Apparently, this is not the case with Project 720.
2) Dual Enrollment is a statutory program; it is not the same as Project 720.
3) Project 720 is a collection of high school initiatives. It is an administration initiative.
4) Brick & mortar charter school students are not explicitly included in the definition of "school entity" that is impacting us here, however, because they can take advantage of the public school busing of the district of residence of the student, they apparently can still get into the dual enrollment situation.
So.
In summary, a lot more information, and a lot for me to look up and research. It seems to me the job to do would be to find these places where cyber charter schools are not considered school entities and get that changed.
There is some feeling that perhaps this decision came not so much from a sudden change in the PDE for ordering them to stop, but rather from the attorneys of the cyber school advising them to stop.
There was no clear cut answer on why cyber schools were excluded - just information that, in fact, they are technically excluded.
1) Some exclusions are based on the definitions of "school entity" within the scope of the various legislation. If cyber charter schools are not defined as a school entity for a particular piece of legislation, then it does not apply to them.
Some of the legislation I looked at the other night does include charter schools and cyber charter schools as school entities. Apparently, this is not the case with Project 720.
2) Dual Enrollment is a statutory program; it is not the same as Project 720.
3) Project 720 is a collection of high school initiatives. It is an administration initiative.
4) Brick & mortar charter school students are not explicitly included in the definition of "school entity" that is impacting us here, however, because they can take advantage of the public school busing of the district of residence of the student, they apparently can still get into the dual enrollment situation.
So.
In summary, a lot more information, and a lot for me to look up and research. It seems to me the job to do would be to find these places where cyber charter schools are not considered school entities and get that changed.
There is some feeling that perhaps this decision came not so much from a sudden change in the PDE for ordering them to stop, but rather from the attorneys of the cyber school advising them to stop.
There was no clear cut answer on why cyber schools were excluded - just information that, in fact, they are technically excluded.
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Date: 2008-02-20 04:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-20 04:43 pm (UTC)If the law explicitly states that "for this portion of the law cola is defined as Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper" then Pepsi would be SOL. They could attempt to get Pepsi included in the definition, but they wouldn't be included under it until they did so.