Board of Ed: charter schools

charters are taking up in February
Wulfson: reminding process of charters applying for new
if he recommends either or both applications, will receive additional information next month

Bentley Academy waiver request
under the MGL, the accountability plan is supposed to be approved the teachers' union
union has taken no action
Sagan: "I think this makes sense; puts off a what will be likely be a very ugly reckoning, but we'll have it when we have it."
Doherty: "union didn't vote any way...also played no role, and were not asked to play a role in developing the plan...aren't going to vote to approve or disapprove a plan they played no role in developing"
Doherty abstains, motion carries

to put Paulo Freire under probation
Wulfson; we have high expectations in the Commonwealth, school is not meeting those expectations
new leadership's acknowledgement of problems
"give schools every opportunity to improve and also signal the seriousness of the problem"
Primary concern is they were severely underenrolled
potentially financially unsustainable
Moriarty talks about location of school and enrollment area
McKenna: all concerned about this; we've seen the numbers
charters are put in place because they offer a choice, they're financially sustainable, people want to go there
"at the moment, we don't have any of those things"
Sagan: we'll take the Commissioner's recommendation and uphold them as well.
vote in favor