“I am pleased the Legislature responded to my concerns and required full transparency for the names and salaries of all charter school teachers and employees," the governor said in a statement. 

 

"I have also asked Chairman Bill Cobey and members of our State Board of Education to ensure that contracts with private entities also provide transparency on salaries and other personnel information. Consistent with the State Board of Education's authority to oversee the successful operations of public charter schools, Chairman Cobey has assured me that he will direct agency staff to collect information from charter schools, including all financial and personnel records, necessary to achieve that goal.”

 

The legislation also launches an inventive charter school dropout prevention and recovery program as well as ensures charter school students are held to high academic standards.