State board will fight to keep oversight of six Aspire charter schools

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In June, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jo-Lynne Lee found that the board improperly awarded Aspire Public Schools rights to bypass local district oversight.

The state education board can allow charters to open schools anywhere in California but only if they can prove their services are a "statewide benefit" that cannot be provided by a charter school overseen by a local district.

In 2007, the California Teachers Association, California School Boards Association and Association of California School Administrators sued the education board, claiming it had allowed Aspire to open schools without determining whether the benefit existed.

Lee's ruling required the state to revamp its rules on statewide charters and gave six of Aspire's schools until June 2013 to gain approval from local school districts or be forced to close.

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