Amends existing law to remove provisions regarding a performance framework and to revise provisions regarding the Public Charter School Commission.

This legislation would move the Public Charter School Commission is organizationally located within out from undertheOfficeoftheStateBoardofEducation., andThislegislationwouldmaketheCommissionitaseparate stand-alone agency under the State Board of Education. Agencies currently under the State Board of Education includetheOfficeoftheStateBoardofEducation, StateDepartmentofEducation, CareerTechnicalEducation, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Idaho Public Television. Currently, the Commission director is an employee of the Office of the State Board of Education. This legislation It would authorize the Commission to appoint and evaluate its own a director, and for the director to hire staff. Currently, the seven commissioners on the Public Charter School Commission are appointed as follows: three by the Governor, two by the Speaker, and two by the President Pro Tem. The This legislation would amend the appointing authority to make all seven commissioners appointed by the Governor. The legislation would strike Idaho Code § 33-5209A(3) which allows mission specific goals to be added in a charter school’s performance certificate. Only three (3) schools make use of this feature currently. Two alternative methods for including this type of data already exist through the Commission’s revised framework and the Commission’s charter renewal application, making this section of code redundant.