Charter Schools Department
The Charter Schools Department (CSD) coordinates the programmatic and fiscal oversight for charter schools approved by the SCCOE Board of Education. The CSD also serves as a resource for Santa Clara County's charter schools, school districts, state and local agencies, parents and communities.
Services
- Definition of Charter School
- County Charter Schools
- Charter School Policies
- Charter School Summit Recap
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The whole document can be downloaded here.
Revised Draft of Guidelines for County Board’s Consideration of a Charter School Zoning Exemption Request
Public Hearing on Material Revision to all Rocketship Charters currently authorized by the Santa Clara County Board of Education
(May 1, 2013)
- Rocketship Mateo Sheedy
- Rocketship Sí Se Puedé
- Rocketship Countywide (Los Sueños)
- Rocketship Discovery Prep
- Rocketship 6 (Academy for Brilliant Minds)
- Rocketship 8
- Rocketship 7 (Alma Academy)
- Rocketship 9
- Rocketship 10
- Rocketship 11
- Rocketship 12
- Rocketship 13
- Rocketship 14
- Rocketship 15
- Rocketship 16
- Rocketship 17
- Rocketship 18
- Rocketship 19
- Rocketship 20
- Rocketship 21
- Rocketship 22
- Rocketship 23
- Rocketship 24
- Rocketship 25
- Rocketship 26
- Rocketship 27
- Rocketship 28
Public Hearing/ Decision Meeting (March 6, 2013)
- Discovery Charter School II – Charter Petition (On Appeal from SJUSD)
The bookmarks on the left-hand side make easily accessible the charter petition and all of the supplemental documents.
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING / CONTRACT
Below is the finalized (6/5/12)Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Santa Clara County Office of Education and Bullis Charter School.
Charter School Petitions: Approved by County Board
- ACE Charter School
- Bullis Charter School
- Communitas Charter High School
- Discovery Charter School
- Downtown College Prep – Alum Rock
- Leadership Public Schools
- Magnolia Science Academy (renewal approved 1/23/13)
- Rocketship – Mateo Sheedy Charter
- Rocketship – Santa Clara Countywide Charter - Los Sueños
- Rocketship – Sí Se Puede
- Rocketship – Discovery Prep Countywide Charter
- Silicon Valley Flex Academy
- Summit Public Schools: Denali (approved 12/12/12)
- Summit Public School: Tahoma
- University Preparatory Academy
- Rocketship 6
- Rocketship 7
- Rocketship 8
- Rocketship 9
- Rocketship 10
- Rocketship 11
- Rocketship 12
- Rocketship 13
- Rocketship 14
- Rocketship 15
- Rocketship 16
- Rocketship 17
- Rocketship 18
- Rocketship 19
- Rocketship 20
- Rocketship 21
- Rocketship 22
- Rocketship 23
- Rocketship 24
- Rocketship 25
- Rocketship 26
- Rocketship 27
- Rocketship 28
Charter School Petitions: Denied by County Board
Resources:
- Guidelines for Countywide Charter Approval
- Rocketship Education
Rocketship Responses to County Board of Education Questions
Staff Members Responses to Rocketship Expansion Questions
- Smarter Choices, Better Education: Improving California's Charter Schools (Little Hoover Commission report)
- Portrait of the Movement 2011 Report (California Charter Schools Association)
Interactive Map
'Lots of high and low achieving charters' (John Fensterwald, SVEF)
Date last updated: May 14, 2013
