Nonclassroom-based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740

Reports on an evaluation of the legislatively mandated process of evaluation of California's nonclassroom-based (NCB) charter schools. Charter schools are publicly funded schools that have the flexibility to operate outside normal district control. This document reports on an evaluation of the legislatively mandated process of evaluating California's nonclassroom-based charter schools, in which instruction generally takes the form of independent study, home study, or some combination of these two with classroom-based instruction.