Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-34 – Enrollment
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-34
- Authorizer: means an entity established under this chapter with chartering authority to review charter applications, decide whether to approve or deny charter applications, enter into charter contracts with applicants, oversee public charter schools, and decide whether to authorize, renew, deny renewal of, or revoke charter contracts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
- charter: means a fixed-term, bilateral, renewable contract between a public charter school and an authorizer that outlines the roles, powers, responsibilities, and performance expectations for each party to the contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
- Conversion charter school: means :
(1) Any existing department school that converts to a charter school and is managed and operated in accordance with section 302D-13; or
(2) Any existing department school that converts to a charter school and is managed and operated by a nonprofit organization in accordance with section 302D-13. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
- Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
- Department school: means any school that falls within the definition of "public schools" as defined in § 302A-101 and that is not a charter school. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
- public charter school: refers to those public schools and their respective governing boards, as defined in this section, that are holding current charter contracts to operate as charter schools under this chapter, including start-up and conversion charter schools, and that have the flexibility and independent authority to implement alternative frameworks with regard to curriculum, facilities management, instructional approach, virtual education, length of the school day, week, or year, and personnel management. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
- Start-up charter school: means a new charter school established under section 302D-13 that is not a conversion charter school. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302D-1
“Educationally disadvantaged students” means students who are economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, migrant students, limited English proficient students, neglected or delinquent students, and homeless students.
“Weighted lottery” means any lottery that gives additional weight to individual students who are identified as part of a specified set of students but does not reserve or set aside seats for individual students or sets of students; and
provided that nothing in this subsection shall preclude the formation of a start-up charter school whose mission is focused on serving students with disabilities, who are of the same gender, who pose such severe disciplinary problems that they warrant a specific educational program, or who are at a risk of academic failure.