Please join in opposing AB1316. This bill will completely devastate California charter schools and its learners. Education is not, nor should it be a "one size fits all" box. AB1316 eliminates school choice for charter school learners as well as cutting funding once again. Learners who are currently enrolled in a charter school that is based out of a neighboring county (which is permitted and very common in small town areas and rural California) will no longer be able to attend that charter under AB1316. Thousands of learners and educators would be displaced. This bill also cuts funding once again, which means less for our learners to attend music, art, theater, computer class and life skills classes- all things that are provided by public schools to their brick and mortar students just as we provide it for ours. Claims have been made such as charter schools do not employ credentialed teachers or that they do not accept students with IEPs. It is false claims like these that engage a negativity with charter schools and we need to speak up and be heard. Oppose AB1316!