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Gateway SD board discusses high charter-school costs and steps to verify student residency
Summary
Board members questioned rising charter-school payments and discussed a new vendor-led residency verification effort and outreach to return students to district schools.
Gateway School District board members on an unspecified meeting date pressed staff about the district's charter-school expenditures and described steps the district is taking to verify where charter students live and to encourage families to return to district schools.
Board members focused on per-pupil payments to charter schools and the district's effort to reduce outflows by confirming student residency and reversing unauthorized enrollments. The district described current per-pupil rates for charter students as "around 14,000" for regular education and "43,000" for special education, figures explained by business staff during the meeting. "For regular ed, it's around 14,000. And for special ed, it's 43,000," the staff member said,…
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