Nonini on lifting charter school caps…

Rep. Bob Nonini, the House education chairman, told legislative budget writers this morning, in response to a question, that the State Board of Education brought his committee legislation to lift the annual cap of six new charter schools in the state, but not the cap limiting them to one new one per district. Nonini said he didn’t like that bill and refused to allow it to be introduced in his committee; he then introduced a bill to lift both caps, and the state board subsequently endorsed that.