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Friday, June 25, 2004
Charter school measure headed for ballot
OLYMPIA -- The petition drive to put the new charter school law to a statewide vote received official certification of its success yesterday.
Sponsors of Referendum 55 submitted 153,718 signatures to Secretary of State Sam Reed on June 9, with validation of 98,867 signatures needed to put the measure on the Nov. 2 ballot. Using a statistical sampling technique, Reed's office determined that 135,745 signatures were valid.
Charter schools are public schools that operate free of many state regulations and local labor union agreements. The law, passed by the Legislature this spring, authorized up to 45 new charter schools over the next six years that would be established under contracts between a school district or state education agency and a non-profit organization, as well as an unlimited number of conversions of existing public schools.
The law is suspended pending the Nov. 2 vote. Washington remains one of 10 states without a charter school law in effect.
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