Questions+to+Research


 * QUESTIONS TO RESEARCH:**

Promising Practices in Charter Schools USC Compendium 2010 Charter Schools Indicator

According to Charter Code: (6) Commencing January 1, 2003, a petition to establish a ** charter ** school may not be approved to serve pupils in a grade level that is not served by the school district of the governing board considering the petition, unless the petition proposes to serve pupils in all of the grade levels served by that school district.
 * So, if Lawndale ESD is only K-8, can a charter high school be started through them?

What do the private schools do well and can we do those things at a charter?

Uniforms or no uniforms? Why would we want them? http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/uniforms.htm http://www.greatschools.org/find-a-school/defining-your-ideal/121-school-uniforms.gs http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=59 http://www.gate.net/~rwms/UniformDWilliams.html

Do we have to answer to a DO? Can they touch our $$$?

How do we get subs, health insurance, set salaries for teachers, etc.?

School locations, what we need in a facility (kitchen/cafeteria, theatre/auditorium), etc, zoning? (what about the South Bay Adult School (Edison Center) by La Salsa?) See: []

Do we have to have textbooks or can we be a completely paperless school? (Maybe not for math...?) []

What if parents don't get their kids to school on time regularly?

What are the legalities of having students doing food service (Culinary Arts program) and serving it at the school (basically students being the cafeteria workers)?

High School Reform

Cafeteria/Chef programs