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    Schools Finally Enforcing Truancy Laws for Protestors

    Schools curb student protests on immigration

    Friday, March 31, 2006; Posted: 10:16 a.m. EST (15:16 GMT)


    Los Angeles International Charter High School students participate in a march Thursday.
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    Manage Alerts | What Is This? LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Student demonstrations dwindled Thursday at California schools as authorities began enforcing truancy rules after days of mass walkouts to protest legislation that would crack down on illegal immigrants.

    No walkouts were reported in the giant Los Angeles school district, the nation's second-largest.

    "I have to go to school today because they called my home and said I had to go to school or I'm going to get a citation," said Rene Hernandez, 15, a student at Van Nuys High School who took part in earlier protests.

    A few hundred students walked out of classes in San Diego, a far smaller number than in previous days. "We are not having students walking off campus in large droves," district spokeswoman Music McCall said.

    Tens of thousands of students took to streets around California and in other states Monday and Tuesday, but those numbers fell after police began breaking up marches and issuing costly truancy and loitering citations.

    Authorities arrested 38 students in San Diego, mostly for loitering, said Steven Baratte, another district spokesman. Most were cited and released to their parents.

    The neighboring Oceanside district took no chances, ordering its middle and high schools closed through Friday. Superintendent Ken Noonan said administrators had information "that violence and racial tension could escalate throughout the community during the remainder of the week."

    In California's Central Valley, 200 to 400 students left Bakersfield schools, but there were no arrests, police Detective Jack Smith said.

    About 500 students at Van Nuys High School attended a lunchtime forum, where immigration lawyer Jessica Dominguez urged them to stay in class.

    "What are we doing when we walk out of school? We are telling the senators that are against the good immigration bills ... that they are right," she said.

    In Houston, dozens of students who left class were arrested or cited and a principal was disciplined for flying a Mexican flag in front of his school.

    The principal of Reagan High School, where 88 percent of the students are Hispanic, was disciplined after hoisting the Mexican flag below the American and Texas flags that usually fly in front of the building.

    District officials instructed him to remove the Mexican flag a few hours later and he complied. District spokesman Terry Abbott said he could not give details about the punishment because it was a personnel matter.

    Students also walked out of class in Austin, El Paso, and Dallas.

    In Arizona, at least 800 students left class to gather outside a Tucson federal building, waving Mexican flags and signs and chanting, "We're not criminals
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    Could someone explain to me exactly what a 'charter' school is and how it is funded???
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    Discription of Charter School and their Funding

    WHAT IS A CHARTER SCHOOL?

    A charter school is an independent public school that operates independently of the district board of education. In effect, a charter school is a one-school public school district. A group of people — educators, parents, community leaders, educational entrepreneurs or others — write the charter plan describing the school's guiding principles, governance structure, and applicable accountability measures. If the state approves the charter, the state funds the charter on a per pupil basis. In most cases charter schools operate under a clear agreement between the state and the school: increased autonomy in exchange for increased accountability. Because they are schools of choice, they are held to the highest level of accountability — consumer demand. creased autonomy in exchange for increased accountability. Because they are schools of choice, they are held to the highest level of accountability — consumer demand. er, the state funds the charter on a per pupil basis. In most cases charter schools operate under a clear agreement between the state and the school: increased autonomy in exchange for increased accountability. Because they are schools of choice, they are held to the highest level of accountability — consumer demand.

    HOW ARE CHARTR SCHOOLS FUNDED?

    Charter schools are public schools and like district public schools, they are funded according to enrollment (also called average daily attendance, or ADA), and receive funding from the district and the state according to the number of students attending. However, in a number of states, they do not receive the full equivalent of their district counterparts: Minnesota charters only receive the state portion (about 75% of a district school's total per-pupil allocation); charters in New Jersey and Colorado also receive less than 100% of the per-pupil funding. In other states, charters must negotiate their funding in their charter contract, often below the level of funding of their district counterparts, and then make up the difference through grants and donations. In addition, unlike traditional district schools, most charter schools do not receive funding to cover the cost of securing a facility. Conversion schools (charter schools that were once public or private schools) begin with established capital, namely the school and its facilities. A few states provide capital funding to start-up schools, and some start-up schools are able to take over available unused district space, but most must rely on other, independent means. Recent federal legislation provides funding to help charters with start-up costs, but the task remains imposing. [/b]

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