SF2113 Summary

• Extends initial charter school contracts from three years to five years, plus an optional preoperational planning year, with renewable five-year terms based on school performance.

• Requires charter school board members to attend ongoing training on governance, board responsibilities, employment policies, and financial management within specified timeframes, with results reported in annual reports.

• Modifies authorizer approval process to require single-purpose charter authorizers to submit five-year financial plans and restricts them from limiting applications to specific curricula or learning methods.

• Changes charter school expansion approval process so authorizers may permit grade additions or new sites after commissioner review and comment, removing the requirement for commissioner final approval.

• Adds new charter school merger provisions allowing schools under different authorizers to consolidate with board and authorizer approval, subject to commissioner review and comment within 30 business days.

• Allows charter school transfers between authorizers with mutual agreement (for non-cause reasons) and commissioner review, requiring disclosure of unresolved contract or oversight issues and agreed resolution plans.

• Modifies affiliated nonprofit building corporation requirements, reducing the required positive fund balance history from eight years to five years for constructing new facilities.