Charter schools: funding.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction annually to compute a general-purpose entitlement for each charter school, as specified. Existing law prescribes calculations to modify that general-purpose entitlement with regard to specified pupils who attend a charter school that is established through the conversion of an existing public school within a unified school district on or after July 1, 2005. This bill would provide that those modified calculations do not apply to charter schools that convert to charter schools on or after January 1, 2010. The bill instead would provide for such charter schools to receive general-purpose funding, as specified. The bill would declare that these provisions do not preclude a charter school or unified school district from agreeing to an alternative funding formula.