SBE Members and Bios

The State Board of Education (“SBE”) is the governing and policy-making body of the California Department of Education. It has eleven members, including one student member, and sets K-12 education policy in the areas of standards, instructional materials, assessment, and accountability, and can grant waivers from certain educational laws and regulations. The SBE has numerous responsibilities relating to charter schools, including but not limited to:

1. Selective granting of charter petitions that have been denied or not renewed by local education agencies, but that the State Board determines to have met statutory requirements;
2. Taking appropriate action, including, but not limited to, revocation with respect to State Board-granted and locally-granted charters under specific circumstances set forth in statute;
3. Establishing appropriate funding levels for non-classroom-based charter schools;
4. Jointly with the State Superintendent, approving district-wide charter petitions when those petitions are determined to be satisfactory;
5. Developing and adopting regulations to implement various provisions of the Charter Schools Act of 1992 (Part 26.8 of the Education Code, commencing with Section 47600);
6. Approving or denying requests to waive otherwise applicable provisions of law;
7. Assigning numbers to charter school petitions to ensure that the statutory cap on the number of charter schools is not exceeded; and
8. Following the passage of AB 2030, overturning charter revocations if the SBE determines that the revocation was not based on substantial evidence.