A charter system is a public school system that operates under a charter or contract approved by the district’s school board and the state Board of Education, with the agreement allowing the system greater flexibility in various areas as long as it can maintain student performance-based objectives.
Cartersville’s 21-page charter contract lists several “innovative features” it aims to implement during the charter’s five-year term, which begins July 1. In addition to flexibilities in funding expenditures and “instructional scheduling and delivery to meet the differing needs of individual students,” the district also will be allowed under the contract to “provide nontraditional pathways to identified high school and middle school students to earn academic credit,” and develop for high school students a leadership academy “designed to integrate academic skills and character development.” The contract also says the district would not be limited just to the areas of flexibility listed.
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