{"id":488,"date":"2012-09-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/what-other-states-have-had-charter-school-referendums.html"},"modified":"2012-09-18T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:00:00","slug":"what-other-states-have-had-charter-school-referendums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/what-other-states-have-had-charter-school-referendums.html","title":{"rendered":"What other states have had charter school referendums?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThanks to Jim Galloway, we learned that charter school proponents say\n\n“No other state has had a positive outcome for a charter-positive ballot initiative.”<\/a>\nOK, what other states have had any sort of charter school referendums?\nSuch ballot initiatives have at least been tried in\n\nMassachusetts<\/a>,\n\nMichigan<\/a>,\nand\n\nWashington<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nBallotPedia\n\nrecords some state charter school referendums.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

<\/a>Massachusetts<\/h3>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nIn Massachusetts,\n\ncharter school proponents couldn’t even get enough signatures<\/a> to put a\npro-charter school referendum on the ballot this year.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe measure would have removed limits on number of charter schools,\ntheir funding, and enrollment. Other changes would have been made in\nlaws that governed charter schools, including requiring approval of\nqualified applications for charter schools to be in districts where\nthere was low student performance.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Michigan<\/h3>\n

\nIn Michigan,\n\na referendum to ban for-profit charter schools<\/a>\nmay be on the ballot in November:\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nAccording to reports, the proposal was introduced in response to a\nbill passed by the Senate in October 2011 that would lift the cap on\nthe number of charter schools in the state. That bill passed 20-18\nin the Senate and is currently in the education committee of the\nMichigan House.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThat sounds just like what’s already happened here in Georgia.\n<\/p>\n

<\/a>Washington<\/h3>\n

\nIn Washington State,\n\na pro-charter school referendum was defeated in 2004<\/a> by 58.3% to 41.7%.\nThis might have had something to do with why:\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe estimated fiscal impact of R-55 as estimated by the Washington\nOffice of Financial Management was:\n<\/p>\n

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\n“Referendum 55 would authorize creation of charter public schools by\nlocal school districts or, through an appeals process, the state\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction. State education spending would\nincrease $14.0 million over five years, primarily the result of new\nstudents entering the public school system to attend charter\nschools. State funding for charter public schools would be provided\nin the same manner as other public schools. As students already\nenrolled in the public school system move to charter schools,\nstudent instructional and other costs would shift and associated\nstate revenue would be reallocated. District-sponsored schools also\nwould receive local revenue.”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Georgia<\/h3>\n

\nDoes what’s happening in Washington sound familiar?\nIt should, except in Georgia\n\nextra funding per student above what public schools get would come\nout of local sales and property taxes.<\/a>\nNo wonder\n\nmany of the same people who pushed T-SPLOST are now pushing this charter school\nreferendum!<\/a>\nIt looks like they’re telling the truth about at least one thing,\non at least their own internal organizational slides:\napparently no other state has had a successful pro-charter-school referendum,\nand back in 2004 one was soundly defeated in Washington state.\n<\/p>\n

\nLet’s not be the first state to fall for\n siphoning funds from public education<\/a>\ninto\n\nprivate for-profit charter schools dictated by an unappointed\nstate committee.<\/a>\nVote No on the charter school referendum in November.\n<\/p>\n

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