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PPS staff detail charter authorizing role, monitoring and funding levels

Portland Public Schools Board of Education Teaching, Learning and Enrollment Committee · December 12, 2025
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Summary

District staff told the committee PPS oversees five PPS‑sponsored charter schools (about 1,303 students) and passes about $19,000,000 in state charter funding this year while conducting academic, fiscal and operational monitoring, site visits and annual performance frameworks.

Portland — Portland Public Schools staff outlined the district’s role as a charter school authorizer and explained how PPS monitors academic, fiscal and operational health across its charter portfolio.

"Our job is to approve or deny annual applicants for the establishment of new PPS charter schools, conduct ongoing monitoring, oversight, and annual evaluation of PPS charter schools, pass through state school funding," said Sunita Sandoz, describing the…

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