![]() Sarah Bonacci said that as a single mother, she does not have the luxury of sending her son to a private school, but Delta Prep has proven a good option for her. “I have heard comments that charter schools are the reason for the declining enrollments … but AUSD has been declining for the last five years, long before Rocketship opened.” “It appears to me that our main concern is money and enrollment,” said Sandra Torres, the mother of a Rocketship second-grader. “It is so different that it totally invalidates that first report, and because it was submitted on April 1 (past deadline), it is considered untimely.”īut those issues mattered little to the more than 200 parents, teachers and students, most of whom wore purple Rocketship T-shirts and burst into school cheers as they spoke in support of Delta Prep. ![]() The school district’s lawyer questioned the revised budget projections as well, noting they were embedded in the 1,000-page response rather than being sent separately. The charter school, which opened in August 2018, submitted a second required report on March 15 showing it would be fiscally insolvent in 2019-20 with a deficit of $526,615 and again in 2020-21 by $645,394. 15, proof that its teachers are credentialed, a timely notice of disenrolled students and required reports on special needs students. The district staff report indicated some of the missing documents included the charter’s end-of-year financial audit, which was due last Dec. The school district first put Delta Prep on notice in late February for violating its charter by not submitting a financial audit and other documents in a timely manner as required, and gave it 30 days to respond and outline how it would remedy the violations. “This notice is not an action to revoke or close the school, but gives the charter 30 days to respond to these issues.” Rocketship delta prep full#“The second notice is so we can get a full understanding of what the financial condition is with this school,” he said. Holbrook, however, said the district is still reviewing the 1,000-page response, and the notice of violation is based on the charter’s March 15 report. “Meet with us directly and work with us to build bridges of communication,” she said. ![]() Gil called it “deeply troubling” that district officials are now “only communicating through legal notices prepared by outside attorneys.” ![]() “In addition, we supported documentation for each and every cure and we welcomed followup conversation.” “We took every one of your concerns very seriously and we provided a clear and detailed explanation for each one of them,” she told the board. Marie Issa Gil, Bay Area Rocketship’s regional director, countered that the charter school, in its 1,000-page response on April 1, addresses all the district’s concerns. “That is a huge disparity from the budget documents that were submitted with the petition when the charter was approved.” “When the charter school submitted its March 15 second interim report to the district, it was deeply alarming to the administration that the report itself projected a deficit of more than $500,000 in the second year out,” Holbrook said. ![]()
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