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Board opens review of Alta Vista charter options, asks staff to research home‑study and transfer implications
Summary
Trustees discussed options for Alta Vista Community Charter School—keep it dormant, materially revise it into a home‑study charter, revoke it, or transfer it to an independent operator—and asked staff to return with workload, fiscal impacts and CDE guidance ahead of June deliberations.
Staff briefed the board that Alta Vista Community Charter remains an active charter with no current enrolled students or staff and is not due for renewal until June 2028, but the board had previously asked staff to revisit the charter earlier. Staff outlined possible options: keep the charter as‑is; pursue a material revision to convert it to a dependent home‑study charter; revoke/collapse the charter; or explore transferring/authorizing it to an independent operator.
Trustees debated tradeoffs: one member said a home‑study charter might recover families who left for nonclassroom models, while others urged caution about workload and additional LEA reporting obligations (a dependent charter requires separate LCAPs and accounting). Staff will contact CDE for guidance, quantify added workload and fiscal impacts, and return with a recommendation and options by the board’s requested timeline.
