By Ms. L'Italien of Andover, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 495) of Barbara A. L'Italien and others that the Department of Education be directed to publish certain information relative to charter schools.  Education.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Barbara A. L'Italien

Douglas W. Petersen

Patricia D. Jehlen

Robert L. Rice, Jr.

Ellen Story

Jennifer M. Callahan

Alice Hanlon Peisch

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act to promote demographic accountability for commonwealth charter schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 89 of Chapter 71 shall be amended by adding at the end of subsection (n) the following:

The Department of Education shall collect and publish annually the following demographic information about Commonwealth Charter Schools:

The number of students enrolled in each Commonwealth Charter School, when they entered, and if they left, when and why they left and where they went.

The process for getting on a waiting list, the number of students on the waiting list, the number of students accepted from the waiting list, and the number of students who refused placement from the waiting list.  The process for being admitted from the waiting list, including where those students came from, and the date they entered the school.

A list of the number of teachers that leave during the year and at the end of the year.