2009 House Bill 4787

House Roll Call 357: Passed

To authorize the conversion of failing public schools into “turnaround schools,” which would be charter schools managed by a private charter school management company with a successful record. This would be one of the options the Department of Education could exercise when a school has failed to meet performance standards for four years in a row. Another would be to replace a failing school with a charter school within five miles. The is tie-barred to House Bill 4788 (both must pass to go into law), and that bill was amended to expand the power of school employee unions to bargain for non-compensation related school management issues, such as decisions to privatize non-instructional services.

70 Yeas / 38 Nays
Democrat (61 Yeas / 5 Nays)
Republican (9 Yeas / 33 Nays)
Excused or Not Voting (2)