Charter schools: supervisorial and oversight responsibilities.

Existing law authorizes the establishment of a charter school through the circulation of a petition and submission of the petition to the governing board of the school district for review and approval, as specified. Under existing law, if the governing board of a school district denies the petition, the petitioner may submit the petition to the county board of education, and, if the county board of education denies the petition, the petitioner may file the petition or appeal to the State Board of Education for approval. Existing law authorizes the state board, by mutual agreement, to designate its supervisorial and oversight responsibilities for a charter school it has approved to any local educational agency in the county in which the charter school is located or to the governing board of the school district that first denied the petition. This bill would instead authorize the state board, by mutual agreement, to designate its supervisorial and oversight responsibilities for a charter school it has approved to any local educational agency.