Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-3-131
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Purpose
Official statutory text
A. The purpose of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act is to:
1. Improve student learning;
2. Increase learning opportunities for students;
3. Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching
methods;
4. Provide additional academic choices for parents and
students;
5. Require the measurement of student learning and create
different and innovative forms of measuring student learning;
6. Establish new forms of accountability for schools; and
7. Create new professional opportunities for teachers and
administrators including the opportunity to be responsible for the
learning program at the school site.
B. The purpose of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act is not to
provide a means by which to keep open a school that may otherwise be
closed. Applicants applying for a charter for a school which is to
be otherwise closed shall be required to prove that conversion to a
charter school fulfills the purposes of the act independent of
closing the school. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to
preclude a school designated as a “high challenge school” from
becoming a charter school.
1. Improve student learning;
2. Increase learning opportunities for students;
3. Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching
methods;
4. Provide additional academic choices for parents and
students;
5. Require the measurement of student learning and create
different and innovative forms of measuring student learning;
6. Establish new forms of accountability for schools; and
7. Create new professional opportunities for teachers and
administrators including the opportunity to be responsible for the
learning program at the school site.
B. The purpose of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act is not to
provide a means by which to keep open a school that may otherwise be
closed. Applicants applying for a charter for a school which is to
be otherwise closed shall be required to prove that conversion to a
charter school fulfills the purposes of the act independent of
closing the school. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to
preclude a school designated as a “high challenge school” from
becoming a charter school.
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