FACSA

Performance Management for Florida Authorizers

St. Petersburg, FloridaJune 16, 17 and 18, 2009

• Build foundational knowledge of Performance Management– BCSQ PMI (February 2009)– Performance Management for Authorizers (April

2009)

• Improve and streamline oversight and monitoring activities– April 2009 and June 2009

Why we are meeting:

Agenda

Day 1

AGENDA:•Overview for the day

• Part 1: Autonomy Line• Planning for Action in Your Organization• Next Steps

Goals• Common Indicators, Measures & Metrics• Review Homework• Talk about autonomy• Intellectual Joust• Do Work!• Plan of Action

Indicators, Measures & Metrics

The Autonomy Line

The Autonomy Line

The Autonomy Line

Accountability Formal agreement to operate a public charter school Defined length of time to operate school If the school does not perform, it does not get to stay open

The Autonomy Line

Autonomy Transfer the authority to operate a public charter school Control over budget, staffing, school configuration, academic

program, schedule, mission and vision, etc. Independent governance Still responsible for health, safety and education of students

The Autonomy LineAn authorizer conducts a year 3 site visit, and issues a

summary school performance report based on the results of the interviews, observations and document review carried out during the site visit. The site visit report states that teachers at the school do not appropriately make available or deliver differentiated instruction to students at the school; citing this as a deficit of the instructional program of the school. The charter of the school and the overall school design, however, do not identify differentiated instruction as a focus of the instructional program or of curricular delivery. The school is KIPP-like in design and highly structured in instructional methodology. At renewal time, student academic performance is significantly higher than that of students in the district and the state – but there is a site visit report (that is a piece of evidence considered at renewal) that cites deficits in the school’s instructional program.

The Autonomy Line: Scenarios

• Break up into small groups• Review the scenario• Discuss the accountability / autonomy line• What are the autonomy and accountability costs associated

with the actions in the scenario?• Present the scenario and your conclusions to the large group

Case Study

Indicators, Measures & Metrics

Florida Charter School Law

Charter schools shall fulfill the following purposes: improve student learning and achievement, increase learning opportunities for all students with special emphasis on low-performing students and reading; encourage the use of innovative learning methods; and require the measurement of learning outcomes. [1002.33(2)(b)]

Florida Charter School Law

A charter may be renewed provided that a program review demonstrates that the criteria in paragraph (a) have been successfully accomplished and that none of the grounds for nonrenewal established by paragraph (8)(a) has been documented. [1002.33(7)(b)]

Florida Charter School LawCharter school operating for a minimum of 2

years and demonstrating exemplary academic programming and fiscal management are eligible for a 15-year charter renewal…shall be granted to a charter school that have received a school grade of “A” or “B” in 3 of the past 4 years and is not in a state of financial emergency. [1002.33(7)(b)(1)(2)]

Florida Charter School LawThe sponsor may choose to not renew the

charter for any of the following grounds: failure to participate in the state’s education accountability system, or failure to meet the requirements for student performance stated in the charter; failure to meet generally accepted standards of fiscal management; violation of law; other good cause shown. [1002.33(8)(a)]

It all boils down to……..

• Based on a program review• Meet statutorily required

contract criteria • Do not meet statutorily

defined grounds for non-renewal

• Renewal term length

Collecting Evidence Over TimeYea

r 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4Year 5 RENEWAL

Big Questions

What information will we evaluate? How will we collect it? What standards will we apply? How will we use our findings? How will our findings fit into

oversight, monitoring, and renewal decisions?

Let’s look at your accountability documents again …

What do you want to keep?

What do you want to change?

What do you want to discard – it is outside the parameters of all that we have discussed?

What do you want to add?

How will Florida authorizers structure charter school accountability?