By Todd R. Hansen

Charter schools such as Kairos Public Schools in Vacaville are concerned with state legislation that on Wednesday cleared the Senate Education Committee.

Senate Bill 1380 provides an additional five years for school districts coming out of receivership to use the potential of fiscal impacts of a new charter school to deny those applications. Districts in receivership already have that authority, which Vallejo City Unified School District used in 2022 to deny Caliber: ChangeMakers Academy from adding a high school to its K-8 school.

Districts receive funding based on their average daily student attendance, so new schools could pull students away from those already troubled districts.

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