HB 2230 -- Charter Schools

Sponsor:  Stream

This bill changes the laws regarding high-risk or alternative
charter schools.  Any proposed or existing high-risk or
alternative charter school may use alternative arrangements for
satisfying graduation requirements, such as credit for off-campus
instruction, embedded credit, work experience through a
school-arranged internship, and independent study.  When the
State Board of Education approves the school's charter, the
alternative arrangements become effective.  In order for students
to obtain credit, the school's arrangements must be studied by
the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education after three
years of operation to assess student performance, graduation
rates, educational outcomes, and entry into the workforce or
higher education rates.

If a charter school's mission includes dropout prevention or
recovery, it may enroll a nonresident student who is considered
high risk or is a dropout from the same or an adjacent county
when the student resides in a residential care facility,
transitional living group home, or an independent living program
whose last school of enrollment is in the district where the
charter school is established.  These schools must give
preference to resident students over nonresident pupils if
enrollment capacity is limited but may also give preference to
high-risk students and dropouts.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated September 14, 2010 at 3:13 pm