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A
Okay
good
morning,
thank
you
very
much
for
joining
us
I'll
call
the
meeting
of
the
k-12
higher
ed
and
cip
joint
subcommittee
to
order,
and
since
this
is
our
first
meeting,
there
will
be
quite
a
bit
of
information
to
begin
with.
So
I'd
also
like
to
remind
the
members
that
we
have
chair
carlton
and
vice
chair
hadagi
on
the
assembly
side
with
us,
and
I
want
to
remind
subcommittee
members
and
members
of
the
public
listening
to
the
budgets
that
will
be
hearing
the
k-12
higher
ed
and
cip
joint
subcommittee,
this
legislative
session.
A
These
will
include
the
department
of
education,
k-12,
education,
funding,
budgets,
state
public
school
chart,
authority,
nevada
system
of
higher
ed
nevada,
state
works,
public
works,
division,
treasurer's
bond
interest
and
redemption
account
and
capital
improvement
program
secretary.
Would
you
please
call
the
role.
A
Here,
thank
you
very
much.
Please
mark
senator
cannizzaro
present
when
she
arrives.
A
A
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you
know,
the
legislative
building
is
currently
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Virtually
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A
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Testimony
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A
A
Please
remember
to
mute
yourself
when
you're
not
talking
and
if
you
have
any
questions
for
the
agency,
just
keep
in
mind
that
to
unmute
yourself.
That's
the
thing
that
we
all
keep
forgetting
to
do
we're
going
to
start
with
today
we're
going
to
hear
the
budget
from
the
state
public
charter
school
authority,
we'll
be
hearing
one
budget
and
that
is
budget
account.
27,
11
and
rebecca
feiden.
Is
the
executive
director
of
the
spcsa
welcome
director
fiden
to
the
joint
subcommittee
and
please
begin
when
you're
ready.
C
Okay
looks
like
that's
working
and
I'm
sure
someone
will
tell
me
if
it's
not
good
morning
again.
Thank
you,
chair
don
darrell
loop
and
members
of
the
committee
for
the
record,
rebecca
feiden
executive
director
of
the
state
public
charter
school
authority.
I
also
have
jennifer
bauer,
the
state
public
charter,
school
authorities,
director
of
finance
and
operations,
on
the
line
with
me
today,
as
well
before
I
dive
into
budget
account
2711
I'll,
provide
some
brief
context
on
the
state
public
charter,
school
authority
and
the
schools
that
we
oversee.
C
C
Each
school
is
governed
by
a
volunteer
board
of
directors
and
may
not
operate
for
profit,
and
each
school
is
subject
to
a
performance
contract
with
a
charter
school
sponsor
such
as
the
state
public
charter
school
authority,
the
state
public
charter
school
authority
was
created
in
2011
with
three
primary
purposes:
first,
to
authorize
charter
schools
of
high
quality;
second,
to
provide
oversight
to
those
schools
and
third
to
serve
as
a
model
of
best
practices
in
charter
school.
Sponsoring.
C
This
slide
shows
some
brief
statistics
about
our
agency.
We
have
a
nine-member
appointed
board,
20
full-time
employees,
two
offices,
one
located
in
carson
city
and
one
in
las
vegas,
and
we
are
currently
responsible
for
passing
through
an
estimated
30
million
dollars
in
state
and
federal
grants
for
this
fiscal
year.
Please
note
this
does
not
include
emergency
funding
that
was
authorized
in
december
of
2020
or
obviously
any
future
emergency
funding
that
may
be
authorized.
C
C
The
next
two
slides
show
a
summary
of
the
state
public
charter
school
authority's
performance
ventures.
First,
we're
focused
on
quality
charter
school
authorizing
with
an
aim
of
providing
equitable
access
to
high
quality
schools.
We
measure
quality
by
looking
at
academic,
financial
and
organizational
performance.
As
shown
on
the
left
side
of
this
slide
overall,
our
schools
are
performing
well
along
all
three
of
these
measures
and
we've
seen
continue
to
imprint
over
the
recent
in
in
the
recent
years.
C
Under
our
new
strategic
plan,
we
have
a
heightened
focus
on
equity
and,
in
particular,
are
looking
at
the
demographics
of
new
students
enrolling
in
our
schools,
with
an
aim
of
ensuring
that
our
schools
survey
representative
population
students,
this
graph
shows
a
noticeable
shows
noticeable
progress.
Since
the
adoption
of
our
new
strategic
plan,
specifically,
our
new
schools,
opened
in
this
past,
fall,
had
double
the
rate
of
students
qualifying
for
free
and
reduced
price.
C
C
Our
second
performance
measure
is
focused
on
local
educational
agency
support.
Here
our
aim
is
ensuring
the
success
of
all
students,
including
those
from
historically
underserved
students
student
groups.
This
data
shows
that
most
of
the
state
public
charter
school
authority
student
groups
are
outperforming
their
state
peers
now
I'll
dive
into
the
budget
request.
Specifically,
this
slide
provides
an
overview
of
budget
account
2711.
C
in
building
the
budget
request.
The
agency
took
into
account
our
peers
nationally.
This
slide
shows
a
comparison
of
the
state
public
charter
school
authority
to
the
two
most
similar
agencies
in
the
country.
In
this
case,
both
of
these
agencies
are
statewide
charter,
school
sponsors
and
both
also
serve
as
local
educational
agencies.
C
B
C
This
slide
shows
a
summary
of
the
role
of
an
lea.
I
won't
read
through
all
the
details,
but
at
a
high
level
being
an
lea
means.
The
agency
is
responsible
for
ensuring
and
providing
oversight
for
the
implementation
of
effective
educational
programs
outlined
in
federal
and
state
statute
as
applicable.
This
includes
three
primary
activities:
first,
providing
training
and
technical
assistance;
second,
administering
grants
and
third
conducting
risk-based
monitoring
of
grant
programs
with
the
change
in
statute.
The
state
public
charter
school
authority
has
embraced
our
role
as
a
local
educational
agency.
C
The
four
requested
positions
are
listed
here
as
well
position.
Control
number
300
is
to
support
the
agency's
work,
conducting
site
evaluations,
position,
number
306
and
307
would
support
the
local
education
agency
function.
Specifically,
303
is
focused
on
the
program
programmatic
component
and
306
and
307
are
focused
on
the
fiscal
component.
C
First
pcm
300
is
an
education
programs,
professional
or
epp,
as
you
can
see
in
the
upper
right
hand
corner
as
you're
aware,
the
state
public
charter
school
authority
is
required
to
conduct
site
evaluations
in
the
first
third
and
fifth
year
of
each
charter
school
contract.
These
are
conducted
by
at
least
two
staff
members
and
based
on
time,
tracking
that
occurred
during
the
calendar
year.
2020
on
an
average
site
evaluation
took
50.4
staff
hours.
C
We
have
one
full-time
employee
who
is
primarily
focused
on
site
evaluations
and
five
other
staff
members
assist
in
conducting
these
site
evaluations.
Because
again,
each
one
requires
at
least
two
staff
members
at
the
bottom
of
this
slide.
You'll
see
projections
for
the
next
two
years,
which
are
based
on
conducting
the
minimum
number
of
site
evaluations,
as
required
in
statute.
C
Now,
we'll
move
on
to
positions,
position
300
a
education
program
supervisor,
this
requested
position
would
add
capacity
to
our
school
support
team,
who
is
tasked
with
overseeing
the
programmatic
side
of
state
and
federal
grant
programs.
Currently
we
have
two
education
programs
professionals
who
each
have
a
portfolio
of
schools
that
they
support
and
oversee
with
regard
to
state
and
federal
programs
over
the
last
five
years,
each
of
their
respective
portfolios
has
grown
significantly
without
any
additional
capacity.
C
The
proposed
education
program
supervisor
would
carry
a
slightly
smaller
caseload
than
the
current
epps,
but
would
also
be
responsible
for
managing
the
programmatic
side
of
this.
Lo
arabar
local
education
agency
function
and
the
support
and
oversight
related
to
these
state
and
federal
grants
I'll
quickly
note
that
the
2020-2021
school
year
enrollment
in
this
table
is
the
actual
validated
count
day
number
for
the
2020-2021
school
year.
This
number
was
not
included
in
the
governor's
recommended
budget,
which
only
included
the
projection
at
that
time.
C
Finally,
I'll
discuss
positions,
306
and
307
the
education
program
supervisor
and
grants
and
projects
and
analysts
respectively.
These
positions
would
both
be
within
the
finance
and
operations
team
at
the
state
public
charter
school
authority
and
would
be
dedicated
to
support
and
oversight
for
state
and
federal
grants,
particularly
as
it
relates
to
the
fiscal
component.
As
you
can
see,
we've
seen
it
the
number
of
grants
and
the
total
funds
increased
very
quickly
in
the
last
few
years,
without
additional
capacity.
C
The
proposed
education
program
supervisor
would
provide
dedicated
capacity
to
steer
the
small
grants
team
to
ensure
effective
administration
of
state
and
federal
grants.
The
proposed
grants
and
projects
analysts
would
be
responsible
for
the
review
of
reimbursement
requests
and
the
supporting
and
supporting
the
review
of
our
school's
grants.
Applications.
C
As
a
local
educational
agency
focused
on
ensuring
strong
academic
outcomes
for
students,
school
districts
and
the
state
public
charter
school
authority
share
many
similar
responsibilities
and
face
similar
challenges,
though
the
spcsa
is
not
a
school
district.
The
reality
is
our
closest.
Parallel
in
the
state
is
in
fact
school
districts
through
membership.
The
state
public
charter
school
authority
will
have
full
access
to
monthly
meetings,
annual
events
and
multi-tiered
training
that
would
be
provided
for
myself,
as
well
as
our
leadership
team
and
our
school
principals.
C
To
summarize,
the
state
public
charter
school
authority
is
seeking
additional
capacity
to
address
our
lea
responsibilities:
the
increase
in
caseload
and
grants
and
the
significant
staff
capacity
required
to
conduct
site
evaluations
with
that.
I'd
be
happy
to
take
ant
to
take
any
questions
that
the
committee
may.
A
Have
okay?
Thank
you
very
much
for
that
information
committee.
If
you
have
questions,
I
guess
raise
your
hand
or
put
it
in
chat.
A
Assemblywoman
had
a
gate.
Please
go
ahead.
B
Thank
you
so
much
chair
and
I
just
had
a
couple
of
questions.
I
didn't
sit
on
this
subcommittee
last
session,
so
I'm
just
more
questions
to
get
myself
familiar
with
this
budget.
B
I
know
I
understand
that
the
the
spc
sa
collects
a
fee
off
the
per
pupil
funding
on
and
you
can
collect
up
to
two
percent,
but
you
only
collected
last
year.
One
point:
two
five
percent
is
that
one
point,
two
five
percent
of
each
students
per
pupil
funding
or
over
the
whole
thing.
C
Rebecca
fighting
for
the
record
chair,
dondero
loop
and
assemblywoman
hattegee.
Thank
you
for
the
question.
The
the
state
public
charter
school
authority's
fee
is
capped
at
two
percent.
Historically,
we
had
charged
one
point:
five
percent
and
reduced
that
last
biennium
to
one
point:
two:
five
percent-
and
that
is
one
point
two
five
percent
of
the
per
pupil
distributed
student
account.
C
B
Follow-Up
chair:
please
go
ahead:
okay,
perfect!
That
was
you
answered
my
next
question.
What
are
the
fees
used
for,
but
it's
for
operational
expenses,
okay
and
then
I
know
that
the
charter
school
authority
also
provides
financial
support
to
its
board
members.
Could
you
walk
me
through
what
what
kind
of
financial
support
you
provide?
Your
board
members.
C
Rebecca
feiden
for
the
record,
may
I
ask
to
clarify:
are
you
speaking
about
board
members
of
the
charter
authority
or
board
members
of
our
schools.
C
Thank
you
for
the
question
board.
Members
of
the
charter
authority
receive
a
small
stipend
for
their
time.
I
believe
it's
80
per
board
meeting
that
they
attend,
and
then
we
also
have
a
small
budget
account
associated
with
board
members.
That's
used
for
travel
for
operational
costs
and
for
sometimes
trainings
that
we
are
able
to
pay
for
for
our
board
to
to
participate
in
trainings,
okay,.
B
And
met
him
chair
if
I
could
just
one
last
question,
please:
okay
and
now
I
know
I
think,
I'm
assuming
as
a
result
of
the
audit
which
created
the
corrective
action
plan
you're
needing
that
additional
staff.
Could
you
kind
of
walk
me
through
what
the
audit
found
and
what's
included
in
that
corrective
action
plan?.
C
Rebecca
fighting
for
the
record.
Thank
you
for
the
question.
The
audit
finding
was
three
specific
items.
First
was
a
more
technical
issue
related
to
the
terms
of
our
sub
award
and,
and
we
have
corrected
the
language
in
our
subaward
to
ensure
that
it
is
in
compliance
with
the
federal
requirements.
C
The
second
two
are
closely
inter
inter
connected.
The
first
piece
is
conducting
a
risk
assessment
for
each
of
our
schools,
based
on
programmatic
and
fiscal
functions,
to
determine
the
risk
of
non-compliance
with
the
grant
requirements
for
each
of
the
grants
that
we
administer.
The
second
component
is
actually
conducting
risk-based
monitoring,
so
we
have
developed
a
risk
assessment
tool
and
we
have
taken
the
opportunity
over
the
last
several
months.
We
conducted
the
risk
assessment
for
each
of
our
schools
and
we
are
in
the
stage
early
stages
of
implementing
risk-based
monitoring.
C
Historically,
our
monitoring
was
not
done
on
a
risk
basis,
and
so
this
creates
additional
work,
both
from
an
administrative
side
to
actually
conduct
those
risk
assessments
and
also
to
make
sure
that
our
our
monitoring
is
really
really
thorough.
Risk-Based
monitoring
should
help
our
agency
to
be
as
effective
as
possible
and
make
sure
that
our
technical
assistance
and
training
and
monitoring
is
targeted.
But
again
this
does
require
some
additional
capacity
and
is
is
certainly
one
of
the
components
driving
the
request
for
three
of
the
positions
that
we
have
identified
here.
C
Rebecca
find
for
the
record,
we
did
conduct
a
risk
assessment
for
this
fiscal
year.
We
will
need
to
do
that
annually
and
that
requires
a
substantial
amount
of
data
and
and
developing
of
processes,
data
tracking,
et
cetera,
and
so
we
are,
I
would
say
we
are.
We
are
working
through
this
here
and
we
have
significant
refinement
to
do
to
make
that
something
that
we
can
implement
seamlessly.
You
know
on
an
ongoing
basis.
A
Thank
you,
assemblywoman
benitez
thompson.
D
D
C
Rebecca
fine
for
the
record
we
have
had
to
bring
in
some
contracted
support
to
mandela,
manage
the
volume
of
grants
that
we
are
handling
right
now.
So
we
do
anticipate
that
that
will
help
to
meet
the
need.
C
The
reality
is,
we
have
also
as
a
result
of
the
emergency
funding,
seen
a
steady
increase
in
grants,
and
so
we
expect
in
part
due
to
the
fact
that
those
emergency
funds
are
expected
to
carry
into
fiscal
year,
23
that
we
will
probably
need
some
additional
great
contracted
support,
at
least
in
the
near
term,
because
of
that
balloon
in
terms
of
just
particularly
short-term
emergency
funding,
but
in
in
general.
Yes,
the
the
intent
is
to
replace
the
the
contractor
that
we
have
with
a
full-time
employee,
okay,.
D
A
A
So
I
have
one
while
everybody's,
maybe
gathering
their
thoughts,
and
I
you
answered
this
a
little
bit
but
I'd
like
a
little
more
information
about
how
the
sbcsa
site
visits.
I
mean.
How
do
you,
how
do
those
can
you
just
give
me
an
update
and
tell
me
how
those
happen
and
indicate
how
a
new
position
would
help
with
that.
C
Rebecca
fighting
for
the
record.
Thank
you
for
the
question
we
have
so
far.
This
year,
we've
conducted
24
side
evaluations.
I
will
note
that
this
year,
site
evaluations
did
have
to
be
adapted
to
meet
our
hybrid
and
distance
learning
reality
that
is
going
on
in
our
schools
depending
on
the
time
of
the
year
and
how
things
have
played
out
so
far
this
year,
but
in
short,
our
site,
evaluations
are
largely
a
full
day
site
evaluation,
there's
significant
pre-work
that
goes
into
the
site
evaluation.
C
Where
we
first
meet
with
the
school.
We
do
some.
We
talk
about
logistics,
we
get
a
schedule
together,
we
coordinate
how
that
meeting
will
go.
We
do
require
some
documents
provided
on
the
front
end
that
are
reviewed
by
the
site,
evaluation
team
and
then,
on
the
day
of
the
site
evaluation,
we
conduct
the
full
day
site
evaluation,
which
is
includes
a
presentation
by
the
school.
On
a
set
of
questions
that
we
asked
the
school
leadership
directly
to
address.
We
have
focus
groups
with
multiple
stakeholders.
C
At
that
point,
those
are
sent
to
the
school
and
the
school
is
able
to
review
it.
Just
to
make
sure
that
you
know
any
technical
errors
are
identified
or
addressed
after
that.
We
finalize
those
site
evaluation
reports,
send
them
to
our
board
and
the
school's
board,
and
then
we
often
join
a
board
meeting
of
the
school
in
order
to
work
with
the
school
on
a
presentation
of
that
site:
evaluation
report
to
the
school's
board.
C
So
it's
a
it's
a
several
month
process
because
there
is
pre-work
and
substantial
work
on
the
back
end
in
terms
of
the
additional
position.
We
have
several
staff
members,
including
myself,
who
serve
as
the
second
person
on
many
site
evaluations,
and
we
are
really
limited
because
of
the
number
of
staff
to
how
many
of
us
we
are.
It's
very
rare
that
we're
able
to
have
more
than
two
people
on
a
site
evaluation
which
really
constrains
us
as
a
as
a
staff.
C
We
also
have
a
number
of
us
who
are
serving
as
second
site
evaluation,
evaluators
and
that's
led
to
some
some
capacity
constraints,
and
so
we
believe
that
a
second
person
will
create
two
two
real
improvements.
One
is
allow
us
to
have
a
more
robust
site
evaluation
teams
when
necessary,
two
to
conduct
additional
site
evaluations
beyond
just
statutory
minimum
required
when
we
need
to,
and
then
the
third
piece
is.
C
A
C
Just
go
to
the
school
just
on
our
board.
There's
a
tremendous
amount
of
data
and
we'd
like
to
do
a
better
job
of
disseminating
some
of
the
best
practices
that
are
identified.
And
so
again
the
additional
capacity
will
help
to
meet
the
demands
of
conducting
the
site
evaluations,
but
also
help
us
to
make
the
most
of
the
site
evaluations
that
we
conduct
and
share
the
best
practices
and
further
support
the
schools.
When
we
do
identify
areas
for
improvement
or
things
that
that
could
be
shared,
because
there
are
great
successes
to
share.
A
B
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
since
this
is
the
finance
committee,
I
think
I
would
like
to
hear
a
little
bit
more
information
about
how
the
supervisor
position
and
the
grants
and
project
analyst
positions
would.
C
B
C
Currently,
we
have
really
just
one
education
program,
professional
who
is
handling
our
grants,
with
the
exception
of
effectively
keying
the
reimbursements
in
and
requesting
reimbursements
from
the
department
of
education,
and
so
this
would
help
us
to
build
a
small
grants
team
that
would
really
be
able
to
to
meet
the
demands
of
the
federal
requirements.
C
C
The
amendment
applications
providing
some
training
and
technical
assistance,
the
education
program
supervisor
who's,
making
sure
that
we
set
a
strong
plan
for
how
this
work
happens,
overseeing
the
work,
ensuring
that
we
build
the
capacity
and
internal
understanding
of
all
of
the
requirements
of
each
of
these
separate
programs,
and
then
the
grants
projects
analysts
would
be
handling
more
of
the
day-to-day
reimbursement
processing.
You
know
just
keeping
the
the
workflow
happening
so
that
we
could
continue
to
pay
those
reimbursements
in
a
timely
manner.
C
B
E
C
Fighting
for
the
record,
we
have
applied
for
additional
funding
because
we
believe
our
schools
need
it.
C
For
example,
we
were
part
of
the
department
of
education's
request
for
the
project
aware
grant
that
they
were
awarded
and-
and
we
are
a
part
of
that
five-year
grant,
and
so
I
believe
it
is
to
meet
the
demands
of
our
current
grants
and
and
know
that,
every
time
that
I
look
at
an
opportunity
that
includes
money
that
team,
I,
I
feel,
a
tremendous
amount
of
guilt
and
that
team,
I
think,
understands
the
great
value.
But
we
are
just.
C
A
E
Go
ahead
and
thank
you,
madam
chair,
so
this
is
so
much
nicer
than
the
conversation
that
we
had
last
legislative
session
about
side
evaluation.
So
I
want
to
congratulate
you.
A
lot
of
questions
have
been
answered.
Compliance
with
the
bill
that
was
passed
seems
to
be
working
fairly.
Well,
so
I
I
just
have
to
say
thank
you.
That
was
a
a
big
issue
last
session
and
I'm
glad
it's
being
addressed
because
it's
really
important.
E
E
Is
this
really
enough
people
to
make
sure
that
you
can
stay
in
compliance
with
the
audit
and
that
we
can
really
get
a
feel
for
what's
going
on
and
be
able
to
monitor?
What's
going
on
in
the
schools,
with
all
the
changes
that
we're
looking
at
over
the
next
year?
We
don't
know
what
next
school
year
is
going
to
look
like.
So
when
I
look
at
balance
forwards
and
the
grants
and
where
you
are
right
now
with
your
reserves,
is
this
really
what
you
need
to
get
it
done?
C
Audit
fighting
for
the
record
we
are,
we
are
not
a
general
funded
agency
to
your
point.
We
rely
on
our
fees
as
well
as
the
some
administrative
dollars
from
our
grants
in
order
to
fund
the
agency's
activities.
C
We
believe
that
these
positions
will
certainly
put
us
on
the
direction
to
be
better
suited
to
meet
the
demands,
and
I
certainly
believe
this
will
be
a
significant
step
forward.
We
also
recognize
that
we
are
in
the
middle
of
a
financial
crisis
and
a
a
national
emergency
and
so
aim
to
identify
positions
that
we
thought
were
most
necessary.
C
Certainly,
certainly,
there
is
more
work
that
we
would
like
to
do.
I
believe
these
positions
will
certainly
put
us
in
a
better
place
to
do
the
work
we
currently
have
on
our
plates,
but
down
the
road.
Should
the
financial
circumstances
look
better,
I
expect
that
we
may
come
forward
with
a
future
request
for
additional
positions.
Again.
C
I
think
this
will
will
help
us
to
be
better
positioned,
but
certainly
down
the
road.
I
think
we
could
use
additional
staff
to
be
best
positioned
to
meet
the
demands
of
our
of
our
work.
E
And-
and
thank
you,
madam
chair,
but
this
is
not
a
general
fund
agency.
I
believe
it's
important
that
charter
schools
are
monitored
just
like
every
other
school.
The
reserves
are
fairly
significant.
The
grant
funding
is
coming.
E
A
A
D
D
You
know
you
took
on
the
you
know
the
official
lea
responsibility,
but
all
those
big
grants
that
were
coming
through
had
requirements
and
kind
of
duties
of
the
federal
grants
regarding
lea.
So
I
know
that
piece
was
new,
but
I'm
I'm
reviewing
the
statute,
and
I
want
to
say
that
as
the
sponsor
of
charter
schools,
2
and
I
think
part
of
the
conversation
that
would
that
we
were
having
was
the
board's
ability
to
manage
their
own
growth
and
to
be
you
know,
conscientious
and
judicious,
about
their
resources.
D
When
looking
at
growth-
and
I
know
that
it
looks
like
there's-
you
know-
kind
of
a
slow
down
in
the
percent
of
increase-
that's
projected
from
21
forward,
and
so
I
guess
the
question
would
be.
Do
you
imagine
the
projected
percent
increase
of
students
in
21,
22
and
23
to
be
manageable,
or
do
you
manage
the
board
really
being
more
considerate
of
you
know,
really
taking
the
resources
they
have
in
balancing
that
with
the
management
of
additional
campuses.
C
We,
those
projections
were
based
solely
on
what
had
been
approved
at
that
time,
and
so
we
do
expect
that
those
projections
will
be
slightly
higher
than
what
was
conveyed
through
governor
the
governor's
recommended
budget
in
terms
of
the
capacity-
and
I
I
appreciate
all
these
questions,
I
I
in
terms
of
capacity,
I
think
we
we
certainly
could
use
more
capacity.
C
I
think
we
are
also
cognizant,
just
as
as
all
of
you
are
of
the
important
work
of
responsible
use
of
taxpayer
dollars,
and
so
I
think
we
want
to
to
make
sure
to
balance
that
very
carefully
as
we
go
forward
and
again,
I
I
think,
particularly
in
a
pandemic,
we
were
in
the
pandemic.
We
were.
C
We
were
cautious
to
make
sure
that
that
these
were
sustainable
positions,
regardless
of
of
the
economic
outlook,
and
so
certainly,
if
there's
an
opportunity
to
add
positions
down
the
road,
we
have
some
ideas
about
where
the
additional
capacity
could
be
a
value
add
in
order
to
help
us
meet
the
demands
of
of
growth
that
we've
seen
over
the
last
couple
years,
as
well
as
the
anticipated
growth,
the
growth
that
we
have
in
the
next
two
years,
so
happy
to
have
further
conversations
on
that
front.
A
Thank
you
very
much.
Senator
kikefor,
please.
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
Thank
you
director,
fighting
appreciate
it.
The
I
want
to.
I
was
curious
if
you
had
any
data
or
numbers
on
how
many
other
students
or
campuses
may
exist
outside
of
the
charter
school
authority,
I
know
that
there's
still
a
number
of
charters
that
are
I'm
authorized
by
districts
so
might
be
some
universities
too.
I'm
not
sure.
If
any.
Actually,
I
don't
think
any
other
existence
of
them.
F
Did
you
know
in
addition
to
what
you
oversee
are
there
how
many
others
are
out
there,
how
many
students
are
involved
in
those?
If
you
happen
to
know,
and
is
there
continued
thought
of
migrating
those
schools
over
to
the
charter
authority
out
from
under
the
districts.
C
Rebecca
for
the
record
that
is
correct.
There
are
three
other
charter:
school
sponsors
in
the
state,
the
clark
washoe
and
carson
city
school
districts,
all
author
sponsor
schools,
and
so
I
believe
that
number
currently
is
under
15
schools
that
are
sponsored
by
those
three
school
districts
and
approximately
eight
thousand
students
I
believe,
enrolled
in
those
schools.
I
don't
have
the
specifics
at
my
fingertips,
but
it's
in
that.
It's
in
that
realm,
and
so.
B
C
Don't
know
that
there's
been
conversation
about
the
charter
authority
overseeing
those
schools.
Certainly
we
work
closely
with
the
district
leads
in
those
in
those
school
districts
with
regard
to
their
oversight
of
schools
and
and
have
a
good
working
relationship
with
those
those
counterparts.
C
But
I
I'm
not
aware
of
any
intent
for
the
charter
authority
to
to
take
on
oversight
of
those
schools.
F
Yeah
no,
I
appreciate
that
and
thanks
for
that
update,
I
wasn't
suggesting
it
was
going
to
be
a
forced
move.
I
know
that
those
individual
charters
have
of
the
choice
as
to
whether
or
not
they
would
want
to
change
their
sponsor
and
they
would
have
to
apply
with
you
to
do
so.
No,
I
wasn't
suggesting
that
you
were
going
to
come
in
heavy-handed
and
grab
them
from
the
districts.
So
I
appreciate
that.
Thank
you.
B
Madam
chair
have
a
question:
please
go
ahead.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
So
yesterday
in
ifc
there
was
about
22
million
dollars.
That's
going
to
be
sent
to
the
charter
school
authority.
Are
you
going
to
end
up
doing
sub
grants
or
how
do
you
think
you'll
end
up
distributing
those
funds?
There
are
certain
requirements
that
you
have
to
me
to
be
eligible,
but
is
there
a
plan
on
how
to
be
able
to
to
potentially
grant
and
distribute
those
funds.
C
Rebecca
fighting
for
the
record,
I
believe,
you're,
referring
to
the
emergency
funds
that
were
authorized
in
december.
So,
yes,
effectively
what
we
do
as
a
local
education
agency,
we
receive
the
allocation
from
the
department
of
education.
We
make
sure
that
we're
well-versed
in
the
requirements
of
those
grants,
allowable
costs,
etc.
We
put
together
documentation
for
our
schools,
and
then
we
put
together
a
as
an
lea.
We
put
together
a
formula
to
distribute
those
funds,
for
example
the
first
set
of
emergency
funds.
C
We
did
a
per
pupil
distribution
with
a
small
additional
weight
for
those
students
that
qualify
for
free
and
reduced
price
lunch.
So
I
imagine
it
will
be
something
along
those
lines
where
we'll
put
together
a
formula
and
then
we
will
officially
sub
award
those
schools
money
to
those
schools.
Our
schools
then
have
to
apply
to
us,
provide
a
budget
for
how
they
will
spend
those
dollars.
We
then
compile
all
that
information
as
well
as
if
we
have
a
small
percentage
of
those
funds
that
we
used
for
the
administrative
costs.
C
We
would
include
that
in
a
application
to
the
department
of
education,
so
you
can
imagine
we
kind
of
take
37.
It's
a
funnel
37
applications.
We
kind
of
build
that
entire
budget.
Together
we
send
it
to
the
department
of
ed
and
then
we
go
back
and
forth
with
the
department
of
education
and
often
have
to
go
back
to
our
schools
to
make
any
revisions
prior
to
approval
from
the
department.
C
Once
we
get
a
full
approval
from
the
department,
we
then
officially
sub
award
to
the
schools,
make
sure
those
some
award
agreements
are
executed,
and
then
we
can
initiate
the
reimbursement
process.
Where
schools
come
to
us,
we
will
reimburse
them,
and
then
we
take
those
pile
over
stack
of
reimbursements
and
go
to
the
department
of
ed
and
the
department
of
ed
will
then
reimburse
us
for
the
funds
that
we
distributed
to
schools.
So
hopefully
that
gives
you
a
little
summary
of
the
process.
B
That's
very
helpful,
thank
you
and
then
one
other
question
that
you
mentioned:
there's
probably
about
15
schools
that
are
outside
of
the
state
charter,
school
authority,
and
so
do
they
have
access
to
those
funds
too,
or
is
it
just
the
ones
that
are
sponsored
through
the
state
charter
school
authority.
C
A
You're
welcome
additional
questions
from
the
committee
or
comments.
A
Okay,
seeing
none
I
will
thank
you,
miss
fiden
and
we'll
move
forward
with
public
comment.
E
F
Good
morning
chris
bailey
d-a-l-y
nevada
state
education
association,
the
voice
of
nevada
educators
for
over
120
years.
This
morning
we
thought
it
may
be
helpful
for
the
committee
to
provide
another
perspective
on
nevada
charter
schools
during
last
session.
Ncaa
pushed
for
greater
accountability
for
charter
schools,
while
our
proposal
to
cap
charter
school
expansion
was
not
successful,
the
legislature
did
pass
a
five-year
growth
management
plan
for
charters.
B
F
While
the
charter
school
authority
was
developing
this
growth
management
plan,
they
also
approved
nearly
5
000
new
charter
slots.
Promised
biden
is
correct
to
point
to
some
improvement
since
last
session,
including
actually
conducting
site
visits
by
the
state
public
charter
school
authority.
Let's
be
honest
with
each
other.
The
charter
authority
is
now
only
clearing
a
relatively
low
bar
of
accountability.
F
F
On
more
diversity
and
new
charter
seats,
there
is
absolutely
no
path
for
charters
to
achieve
parity
in
the
foreseeable
future
and
during
the
pandemic,
look
what
charter
schools
did
many
of
them
game.
The
system
by
triple
dipping
taking
state
funds
cares
act,
funds
and
ppp
funds
all
while
playing
by
their
own
set
of
rules.
F
Meanwhile,
the
charter
authorities
exhibit
little
effort
to
slow
the
growth
of
charters
until
charter
schools
serve
an
equivalent
percentage
of
at-risk
students,
english
learners
and
students
with
disabilities,
and
until
charters
are
held
to
the
same
standards
as
our
neighborhood
public
schools,
they
are
a
force
against
education,
equity
and
a
drain
on
our
system
of
neighborhood
public
schools.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you
much
and
if
there's
no
more
public
comment,
I
appreciate
all
of
you
being
patient
with
me
on
this
first
committee
and
we
will
adjourn.