Description: Charter schools can discontinue the delivery of services in five ways, primarily
depending on the timing of the action (i.e., whether it is sudden and in the middle of a
school year or at the end of a school year), and the apparent reason for the disruptions.
They are: emergency disruption, closure, non-continuation, non-renewal of charter, and
failure to open. Regardless of the type of discontinuation, a number of activities must be
completed by a charter school and its board before it closes, including reasonable
notification of staff, students, and parents, transfer of students and their records to other
schools, and satisfaction of creditors.
