Title 14 — Education
85 chapters · 592 sections in this title.
14 Del. C. § 501. Legislative intent.
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§ 501. Legislative intent. The purpose of this chapter is to create an alternative to traditional public schools operated by school districts and improve public education overall by establishing a system of independent “charter” schools throughout the State. To that end, this cha…
14 Del. C. § 502. Potential charter organizers.
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§ 502. Potential charter organizers. This legislation is intended to encourage any person, university, college, or nonreligious, non-home-based, nonsectarian entity that can meet the requirements of this chapter to form a charter school. No private or religiously affiliated schoo…
14 Del. C. § 503. Legal status.
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§ 503. Legal status. A charter school is a public school including 2 or more of grade kindergarten through 12 managed by a board of directors, which operates independently of any school board, under a charter granted for an initial period of 4 school years of operation and renewa…
14 Del. C. § 504. Corporate status.
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§ 504. Corporate status. (a) A charter school shall be organized and managed under the Delaware General Corporation Law. (b) The board of directors of a charter school shall be deemed public agents authorized by a public school district or the Department with the approval of the …
14 Del. C. § 504A. Powers.
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§ 504A. Powers. Consistent with its charter and the provisions of its certificate of incorporation, bylaws or membership agreements, the board of directors of a charter school or schools shall, as to each charter that the board holds, have the power to: (1) Manage the implementat…
14 Del. C. § 504B. Open meetings.
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§ 504B. Open meetings. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Agenda items” means major issues expected to be discussed at a public meeting, and excludes procedural items such as votes to approve minutes or enter into executive session. (2) “School board” means the board of direc…
14 Del. C. § 505. Exemptions; rules and regulations.
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§ 505. Exemptions; rules and regulations. (a) Except as otherwise specified in this chapter and title, a charter school is exempt from all provisions of this title except the provisions of Chapter 31 of this title, and all regulations of any board of education of a reorganized sc…
14 Del. C. § 506. Restrictions [For application of this section, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 316, § 3].
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§ 506. Restrictions [For application of this section, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 316, § 3]. (a) A charter school may not do any of the following: (1) Charge tuition, except in accordance with Chapter 6 of this title, or collect fees not permitted to be assessed by other school district…
14 Del. C. § 507. Labor relations.
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§ 507. Labor relations. (a) A public school may only be converted to a charter school by approval of the board of the school district in which it is located and that the charter application received the approval of over 50% of the teachers and over 50% of the parents residing in …
14 Del. C. § 508. Responsibility for student transportation.
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§ 508. Responsibility for student transportation. (a) (1) A charter school may do 1 of the following: a. Request to have the school district where the charter school is located transport students residing in that district, at fair cost, to and from the charter school on the same …
14 Del. C. § 509. School financing.
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§ 509. School financing. (a) Charter schools shall be eligible for public funds under procedures established by this section. Notwithstanding that this Code may establish procedures for the funding of a public school choice program and that such program may include charter school…
14 Del. C. § 510. State assistance.
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§ 510. State assistance. (a) The Department of Education shall distribute information announcing the availability of the charter school program, explaining the powers and responsibilities of a charter school contained in this chapter, and describing the application process to eac…
14 Del. C. § 511. Approval procedure [For application of this section to the City of Wilmington, see 80 Del. Laws, c. 17, § 2].
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§ 511. Approval procedure [For application of this section to the City of Wilmington, see 80 Del. Laws, c. 17, § 2]. (a) An approved charter school application, together with such conditions imposed pursuant to subsection (l) of this section, shall be the basis for a charter gran…
14 Del. C. § 512. Approval criteria.
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§ 512. Approval criteria. Subject to the process prescribed in § 511 of this title, charter school applications shall be in the form established by the approving authority and shall be approved if, after the exercise of due diligence and good faith, the approving authority finds …
14 Del. C. § 513. Reporting and oversight.
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§ 513. Reporting and oversight. (a) On or before January 15, each charter school shall produce an annual report for the school year ending the previous June, which shall include all of the following: (1) An explanation of the school’s progress in meeting overall student performan…
14 Del. C. § 514. State reports on the charter school program.
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§ 514. State reports on the charter school program. Annually, the Department shall prepare a report for the Governor, the General Assembly, and the State Board of Education on the success or failure of charter schools and propose changes in state law necessary to improve or chang…
14 Del. C. § 514A. Renewals and nonrenewals.
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§ 514A. Renewals and nonrenewals. (a) Four years after a charter school has commenced its instructional program pursuant to this chapter and not later than every 5 years thereafter, the approving authority shall, upon notice to the charter school, review the performance of the ch…
14 Del. C. § 515. Oversight and revocation process.
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§ 515. Oversight and revocation process. (a) The approving authority shall be responsible for oversight of the charter schools it approves. (b) In addition to the review required by § 514A(a) of this title, the approving authority may notify a charter school of potential violatio…
14 Del. C. § 516. Revocation criteria.
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§ 516. Revocation criteria. Approved charters shall be subject to revocation or probation, after the exercise of due diligence and good faith, only for the following reasons: (1) The school, or its representatives, has committed a material fraud on the approving authority or misa…
14 Del. C. § 517. Charter transfer to different authorizer.
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§ 517. Charter transfer to different authorizer. Transfer of a charter, and of oversight of that public charter school, from 1 authorizer to another before the expiration of the charter term shall require a petition by the public charter school or its authorizer to the new author…
14 Del. C. § 518. Oversight and revocation for multiple charter holders.
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§ 518. Oversight and revocation for multiple charter holders. For purposes of §§ 515 and 516 of this title, each charter held by a common board of directors shall be treated separately and individually.78 Del. Laws, c. 187, § 11;
14 Del. C. § 519. Charter school board training.
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§ 519. Charter school board training. (a) (1) In order to best understand the educational and legal issues involved in special education due process hearings, each member of a charter school board of directors must complete training at the beginning of that member’s term on a cha…