(1) "Educational management service provider" shall mean any
of the following, but shall not include a charter school
foundation:
(i) A for-profit or nonprofit educational management
organization.
(ii) A school design provider.
(iii) An administrator or executive of a for-profit or
nonprofit educational management organization, including the
organization's chief executive officer, business manager or an
entity with which a board of trustees or school director of a
school entity contracts to provide educational design, business
services, comprehensive management or personnel functions or to
implement a school entity.
(2) "Founder" shall mean an individual or entity that has
established a charter school under section 1717-A, including one
or more teachers who will teach at a proposed charter school, a
parent or guardian of a student who will attend a charter school
or a nonsectarian not-for-profit corporation.
Section 1.1. Section 1525 of the act is amended to read:
Amend Bill, page 75, by inserting between lines 1 and 2
Section 18. Section 2574.3 of the act is amended by adding
subsections to read:
Section 2574.3. Approved Reimbursable Annual Rental for
Leases of Buildings or Portions of Buildings for Charter School
Use.--* * *
(c) A school entity shall provide all of the following
documentation in the school's application for funding under this
section:
(1) A copy of the signed lease agreement for the leased
building.
(2) A copy of the deed for the leased building.
(3) The names of the board of trustees, school directors and
administrators of the school entity.
(4) If applicable, the names of the administrators or
executives of the educational management service provider.
(5) If the owner of the leased building is a nonprofit
organization or a school entity foundation, the names of the
board members of the nonprofit organization or a school entity
foundation.
(d) Charter schools may not apply for and the department may
not authorize a lease reimbursement if the reimbursement is for
a lease payment to any of the following:
(1) An administrator of the school entity or a member of the
administrator's immediate family or a business with which the
administrator's immediate family is associated.
(2) A trustee of the board of trustees of the school entity
or a member of the trustee's immediate family or a business with
which the trustee's immediate family is associated.
(3) A founder or a member of the founder's immediate family
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