Every authorizer shall be required to submit to the board and the legislature an annual report summarizing:

(1) The authorizer’s strategic vision for chartering and progress toward achieving that vision;

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-7

  • Authorizer: means an entity established under this chapter with chartering authority to review charter applications, decide whether to approve or deny charter applications, enter into charter contracts with applicants, oversee public charter schools, and decide whether to authorize, renew, deny renewal of, or revoke charter contracts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
  • Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
  • charter: means a fixed-term, bilateral, renewable contract between a public charter school and an authorizer that outlines the roles, powers, responsibilities, and performance expectations for each party to the contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
  • Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
  • public charter school: refers to those public schools and their respective governing boards, as defined in this section, that are holding current charter contracts to operate as charter schools under this chapter, including start-up and conversion charter schools, and that have the flexibility and independent authority to implement alternative frameworks with regard to curriculum, facilities management, instructional approach, virtual education, length of the school day, week, or year, and personnel management. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
(2) The academic performance of all operating public charter schools overseen by the authorizer, according to the performance expectations for public charter schools set forth in this chapter, including a comparison of the performance of public charter school students with public school students statewide;
(3) The financial performance of all operating public charter schools overseen by the authorizer, according to the performance expectations for public charter schools set forth in this chapter;
(4) The status of the authorizer’s public charter school portfolio, identifying all public charter schools and applicants in each of the following categories: approved (but not yet open), approved (but withdrawn), not approved, operating, renewed, transferred, revoked, not renewed, or voluntarily closed;
(5) The authorizing functions provided by the authorizer to the public charter schools under its purview, including the authorizer’s operating costs and expenses detailed in annual audited financial statements that conform with generally accepted accounting principles;
(6) The services purchased from the authorizer by the public charter schools under its purview;
(7) A line-item breakdown of the federal funds received by the department and distributed by the authorizer to public charter schools under its control; and
(8) Any concerns regarding equity and recommendations to improve access to and distribution of federal funds to public charter schools.

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