Minnesota charter schools get 1-year extension on new rules

Tom Weber:

Charter schools in Minnesota are getting a one-year reprieve from a deadline that threatened to close dozens of schools.

Those schools' sponsors were facing a summer deadline to continue sponsoring schools under a new system created two years ago. Schools without a sponsor, or authorizer, by this July would have had to close.

Gov. Mark Dayton signed legislation into law Wednesday that extends that deadline until next summer.

Eugene Piccolo with the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools said the deadline worried many schools.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 20, 2011 1:19 AM
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