Timing is everything, isn’t it?
Two news stories in the past week, both to some degree involving our local school district, indicate that is so.
The first involves Hamilton County’s eight public charter schools having to amend their contracts with the school district to comply with state law.
Each charter school, per 2018 state law, must have a performance framework (language that defines the academic, financial and operational success metrics on which it is evaluated), and districts are to annually review each charter based on that framework.
Apparently, that important work hadn’t been done this year because the district lacked staff, according to the district’s charter schools coordinator, and that fact was called to the district’s attention by a state charter review process.