Charter School Billing

cmurray  posted on: 09/21/12 09:17 AM

Did you all note the funding provisions outlined in the NYSCOSS material? Charters will PROJECT the number of students from your district and bill you for those every other month. Any errors in their projected numbers will not be corrected until the following year ( if the school is still in operation). When Holly and I start ours, we're going to locate it in unused public space (supported by the bill)within a fifteen mile radius of as many other schools as possible and I'm going to bill each of you in that circumference for at least ten kids. That should net me easily $500,000 for starters. I'll make sure they're all elementary kids, all bright and eager with supportive families and we'll do very well. I'll hire eager young teachers with certification if they have it, but I'll still pay like a parochial school, no one will get tenure, no one will get a salary scale that will cost me money eventually, and I'll live with high turnover in exchange for the vitality of a near "voluntary" workforce. And if there aren't ten kids from your District that end up in The Manaseri School, I'll give you your money back by Christmas of year two - without the interest I've earned on it of course. Sounds like a plan to me. My Board President asked an interesting question last night. If we were to convert to a Charter ( that can't tax), who does the local revenue piece? Do we keep a BOE in place for RCS for tax purposes only and then establish a separate board of directors not elected by the people to run the program and send the BOE the bill? I'll be interested to see how that piece works, too.