Amendment ID: S2262-32-R1

Redraft Amendment 32

Charter School Innovation

Mr. Tarr moves to amend the bill by inserting, by inserting after section 56 the following section:-

“SECTION 56A. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department of elementary and secondary education shall examine and report innovations performed by charter schools and determine any replicabilty for non-charter schools in the commonwealth; provided, that in preparing said report the department shall conduct at least 1 public hearing.

The report, along with any recommendations, shall be submitted to the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the chairs of the house and senate committees on ways and means and the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on education not later than January 1, 2017.”