Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-3-131: Purpose

A. The purpose of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act is to:

1. Improve student learning;

2. Increase learning opportunities for students;

3. Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching

methods;

4. Provide additional academic choices for parents and

students;

5. Require the measurement of student learning and create

different and innovative forms of measuring student learning;

6. Establish new forms of accountability for schools; and

7. Create new professional opportunities for teachers and

administrators including the opportunity to be responsible for the

learning program at the school site.

B. The purpose of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act is not to

provide a means by which to keep open a school that may otherwise be

closed. Applicants applying for a charter for a school which is to

be otherwise closed shall be required to prove that conversion to a

charter school fulfills the purposes of the act independent of

closing the school. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to

preclude a school designated as a “high challenge school” from

becoming a charter school.