S0006B1124A02846 LKK:JSL 06/28/15 #90 A02846
AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILL NO. 6
Sponsor: SENATOR DINNIMAN
Printer's No. 1124
Amend Bill, page 5, line 10, by inserting after "powers "
and duties
Amend Bill, page 5, line 14, by inserting after "606-B(b)."
A priority shall be given to authorizing charter schools
designed and led by the use of the collective teacher
autonomy model of leadership and organization to assure
autonomy for the professional teachers that is formed by:
(i) the professional employees who are assigned to
the school or school district that the ASD is
transferring to its jurisdiction; or
(ii) the professional employees who are assigned to
a school or the school district that the ASD is
transferring to its jurisdiction and the parents of the
students that will attend the ASD school and the
residents of the area that will be served by the ASD
school.
(3) The duty to consult with innovative school
representatives, trauma-informed education representatives,
parent groups, community affairs representatives, business
representatives and any other organization that specializes
in and has expertise with schools that implement community
engagement and to establish and develop guidelines that all
ASD schools shall implement and operate in accordance with,
but not be limited to, the following types of educational and
school administration approaches that increase parent
involvement by:
(i) creating an environment that recruits parents
and community members for school tasks in order to listen
to different viewpoints and to share in decision making
that provides the necessary foundation for a school-
family-community partnership;
(ii) creating ways that families can be involved in
schools or school programs and effective methods of
recruitment;
(iii) linking families with their children's
curriculum through learning activities that can be done
at home, as well as homework;
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(iv) assisting families with parenting and child-
rearing skills and assisting schools in understanding
families;
(v) coordinating services in the community with
family needs, providing services to the community and
making available facilities, faculty and staff to the
community for activities and educational programs for the
community;
(vi) promoting attendance and truancy prevention
efforts between schools and the students' families; and
(vii) including trauma-based best evidence practices
that integrate programs and family components into or in
conjunction with the curriculum of schools.
(4) The duty to provide assistance, training and
material to ASD schools to facilitate the implementation of
the guidelines promoted under paragraph (3).
Amend Bill, page 5, line 26, by striking out all of said line
and inserting
(c) Criteria for conversion.--
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions
Amend Bill, page 5, by inserting between lines 28 and 29
(2) The ASD, when converting a school under its
jurisdiction to a charter school, shall give preference to
converting the school to a charter school that is a teacher-
powered charter school designed and led by the use of the
collective teacher autonomy model of leadership and
organization to assure autonomy for the professional teachers
that is formed by:
(i) the professional employees who are assigned to a
school or the school district that the ASD is
transferring to its jurisdiction; or
(ii) the professional employees who are assigned to
a school or the school district that the ASD is
transferring to its jurisdiction and the parents of the
students that will attend the ASD school and the
residents of the area that will be served by the ASD
school.
(3) The charter school given preference under paragraph
(2) may have been authorized by the ASD or by any other legal
authority.
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