17. a. A charter granted by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1995, c.426 (C.18A:36A-1 et seq.) shall be granted for a four-year period and may be renewed for a period of five or 10 years at the discretion of the commissioner. A charter school, which has been deemed high performing based on measures contained in the Performance Framework developed by the commissioner pursuant to regulations adopted under chapter 11 of Title 6A of the New Jersey Administrative Code to evaluate the academic, financial, and organizational performance of charter schools, may be renewed for a period of 10 years, provided that the charter school has not been placed on probationary status within the previous five years. The commissioner may revert a charter school approved for a 10-year renewal period to a five-year renewal period if the charter school is placed on probationary status during the first five years of the 10-year renewal period. The commissioner may review the charter of a school that has been granted a renewal at any time during the renewal period.
b. The commissioner may place a charter school on probationary status to allow the implementation of a remedial plan after which, if the plan is unsuccessful, the charter may be summarily revoked. The commissioner may place a charter school on probationary status for any reason determined by the commissioner based on the individual circumstances of a charter school or if, on two occasions during a single school year, the charter school:
(1) has not fulfilled any condition imposed by the commissioner in connection with granting the charter;
(2) violates any provision of its charter;
(3) violates any of the financial operations requirements established for the charter schools by the State board;
(4) fails to make reasonable and appropriate efforts to serve a cross section of the community’s school age population;
(5) engages in a practice and pattern of discrimination in violation of federal or State law; or
(6) violates any federal or State law.
A charter school shall notify each employee and the parent or guardian of each enrolled student as to the charter school’s probationary status upon notification by the commissioner that the charter school has been placed on probationary status.
c. The commissioner may revoke a school's charter if the school has not fulfilled any condition imposed by the commissioner in connection with the granting of the charter, if the school has violated any provision of its charter, if the school is determined by the commissioner to have committed or engaged in any of the criteria listed in paragraphs (1) through (6) of subsection b. of this section while on probationary status, or for any reason determined by the commissioner based on the individual circumstances of a charter school, except that in the case of violations that are administrative or technical in nature, the commissioner shall afford the school an opportunity to correct the deficiencies prior to initiating revocation proceedings.
d. The commissioner shall develop procedures and guidelines for the revocation and renewal of a school's charter.