- Moore: local approval for charters required for local funds to be used; no local approval=state must fund directly
- -withdrawn-
- Flanagan: charters must follow ch. 30B in purchasing
- Flanagan: district and charter must agree on start times, and district (always) only responsible for 50% of transportation costs
- Brady: no cap lift on charters
- Brady: no change in the Level 3 schools language
- Lewis: specifies ELL and special ed data as being part of subgroups to be considered in evaluation; also improvement plans must be compiled by district
- Rodrigues: charters eligible for MSBA funding
- L'Italien: tightens "at risk" language on charters that can exists as alternative over the cap; also drops "opt-out" from lottery language (the term, not the concept)
- L'Italien: "high risk" language only for high school (grades 9-12, not 7-12); insists on "early warning system" not a replacement
- L'Italien: like 3 in requiring ch 30B NOW WITHDRAWN
- O'Connor Ives: similar to 10 in tightening alternative ed language
- Chang-Diaz: calls on DESE to establish regs for lottery; provides for regional charters to be included in a lottery
- Chang-Diaz: requires reporting on reasons for students who leave (both district schools and charters)
- Keenan: special commission on dyslexia
- Tarr (co-sponsored by L'Italien): report by DESE on innovations of charters
- Tarr (co-sponsored by L'Italien): plan for all students reading at grade level
- Tarr* (co-sponsored by L'Italien): no solicitation or gifts for families applying to charters
- Tarr (co-sponsored by L'Italien): Board of Ed can reconsider granted charter in 6 months if not meeting requirements
- Tarr (co-sponsored by L'Italien): requires a 30 day confirmation that new charters are meeting their requirements
- Tarr (co-sponsored by L'Italien): provides for Board revoking charter if charter is not meeting requirements
- Tarr: requires regs for Ch 71 Sec 89 (MGL on charter schools) and regs for waivers of charters not meeting suspension and attrition requirements
- Rodrigues: substitute bill (S.2208)
- Tarr: establishes a charter working group
- Chang-Diaz: adds date to requirement of charters to abide by Ch 222 (date discipline reg changes were implemented)
- Moore: requires state to fund charters directly; funds increases to charters on 100/50/25 basis
- Pacheco: no cap lift through Sept. 1, 2018
- Ross: foundation budget funding for special ed from prior five year ACTUAL average (both in-district and out-of-district)
- Chang-Diaz: calls for study of effective and efficient funding (per FBRC recommendation)
- Humason: charter regional transportation depends on full funding of regional transportation reimbursement
- Chang-Diaz: defines in-district and out-of-district rates for special education (per FBRC)
- O'Connor Ives: revamps innovation fund (from section 1) for innovation schools and Horace Mann charters
- Welch: adds end time to what must be agreed upon between charters and districts for transportation
- Barrett: advanced notice to charters if they aren't lining up with district attrition rates
- Barrett: advanced notice to charters if they aren't lining up with suspension rates
- Barrett: alternative education exempt from attrition quotas
- Barrett: provides for Board to waive attrition quota
- O'Connor Ives: covers collective bargaining within the Level 3 section
- Barrett: provides for Board to waive suspension quota
- Pacheco: requires retroactive approval locally of charter schools
- Barrett: provides for charters to remediate their suspension and/or suspension data
- Barrett: eliminates requirement for charters to meet with superintendent and have local hearing with school committee
- Barrett: requires DESE to do impact analysis (not district)
- Barrett: paraprofessionals
- Barrett: paraprofessionals
- Barrett: paraprofessionals in Levels 3, 4, 5, respectively (44-46)
- Dorcena Forry: deals with excessing of teachers (as is done in Boston)
- Chang-Diaz: drops the double of "regulation by Board" language (simple language edit)
- L'Italien: puts charter schools under school committee oversight; requires that school committee members not be part of charter school (teacher or the like)
- Spilka: cleans up the math of the foundation budget calculations (doesn't change anything of recommendation) AND SOME LATE ADDITIONS!
- Tarr: substitute bill (S.2210) does create a foundation budget commission; doesn't reform charters
- Chang-Diaz: adds "fully" to districts receiving mitigation.
* I should perhaps note that Senator Tarr represents Gloucester; it appears their experience with a charter school has stayed with him.
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