{"id":1869,"date":"2011-10-04T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2011-10-04T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:47:25","slug":"inside-florida-charter-school-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/04\/inside-florida-charter-school-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Florida Charter School Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we looked at some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/03\/five-misconceptions-about-charter-schools\/\">misconceptions <\/a>about how Florida charter schools must operate.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;ll take a look at a couple of charter contracts to see the different requests school districts make of charter applicants. Seminole County asked Galileo School for Gifted Learning to abide by the class size limits for district schools, for instance, instead of the slightly more forgiving standards usually applied to charter schools.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a Hillsborough County charter school contract. We&#8217;ve added some notes to point out important sections.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/253109-terracecommunitycontract.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"TerraceCommunityContract (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<p>To read the contract of a Duval County charter school run by a for-profit firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/253106-duval-charter-at-arlington-contract.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Galileo School for Gifted Learning&#8217;s charter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/253107-galileochartercontract.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, a Duval County charter high school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/253108-lone-star-hs-contract.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we looked at some of the misconceptions about how Florida charter schools must operate. Today we&#8217;ll take a look at a couple of charter contracts to see the different requests school districts make of charter applicants. Seminole County asked Galileo School for Gifted Learning to abide by the class size limits for district schools, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1009,1056,1052,1008,140],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}