09/20/12New Charter School Framework Released in Delaware
Newsworks.org (09/20/2012) Polston, NichelleThe Delaware State Board of Education and the State Department of Education have collaborated on a set of guidelines that establishes a new performance framework for charter schools, known as the Charter Performance Framework. The framework is expected to provide clarity of charter school performance and a better platform for monitoring the schools. State Education Secretary Mark Murphy says, "What we achieve with this, is an ability to measure the performance of our charters each year and we have not had a good structure to do that work in the past." The framework focuses on measures of student proficiency, accountability, and whether the school prepares students for college, as well as on organizational performance such as how schools are running and if they meet the needs of students. Additionally, the framework calls for measures of charter schools' financial health, including debt service and cash flow.
