School Operations
Resources and guidance to help charter schools run smoothly and safely
What We Offer
Value of partnership
“The value of the partnership we’ve built with the Charter Support Unit team is immeasurable. They provided guidance and walk each school through the exhaustive foundation-building process to a successful first day of school. Through our partnership, we have developed tools and resources for new schools to utilize. We plan on exploring more opportunities to collaborate. I know they’re just a phone call away. “
– Nadia Luna, VP of Member Services
Texas Public Charter Schools Association
Resources & Templates
From checklists for new schools to sample policy manuals, employment contracts and
forms for parents, the CSU’s library contains invaluable resources to help you run your school. Topics for operations professionals include campus safety, student health, family engagement, nutrition program compliance, marketing, technology and cybersecurity — and much more.
Webinars
Aired live weekly, and archived for viewing anytime, the CSU’s webinar series brings expertise from all over the country to bear on common challenges for charter school operators.
Consultations
Have an operations issue that would benefit from an outside perspective, or would you simply like feedback on how you might move your school to the next level? CSU consultants are available to meet with school leaders and boards to work through your school’s particular challenges or to help you advance your mission in new ways.
Document Review
For schools in their first charter contract, we review operating documents at no cost to schools to provide feedback or suggestions. Whether you are developing an employee handbook, a parent guide, employment documents or forms for your staff, we’re here to help.
Budget Templates
Many schools and districts have long utilized the Budget Template tool available from the Charter Support Unit. We will continue to support and expand upon the existing tool. In addition, we will be creating additional templates and tools to help existing schools with developing future budgets, and to assist schools during their launch year with projecting actual expenses and budgets through the school opening. Watch for more later in the year.
Charters.Link (Florida)
For Florida charter schools and authorizers, this online monitoring tool helps ensure compliance with all of the documents and deliverables that schools are required to provide to their authorizing district throughout the year.
School Operations
Trainings, Webinars, Sample Documents, Resources, and more…
- Student Application Form
March 9, 2021
This form is used for collecting student information to include them in a student selection process/lottery. This form is deliberately avoiding asking questions that could potentially be used as a basis for discrimination claims against the school, an …
Read more - Student Enrollment Form
March 9, 2021
This is a sample student enrollment form. The Charter Support Unit uses the term “Enrollment” to define the period of time after a student is selected in the lottery. We would not recommend using this form as a registration form before the lottery as …
Read more - Student Accident Form
March 9, 2021
This is a sample form that a school can adopt to record and document an incident involving a student accident. Your school’s student accident policy may have specific requirements that they need in the documentation, so we would recommend that you che …
Read more - Out of District Student Record Request Form
March 9, 2021
This is a sample form a school can use to document a records request to another school to request records for a student. It should be noted, however, that some districts or organizations may have specific requirements for their request, so you may need …
Read more - Student Dispute Resolution Agreement
March 9, 2021
This is a sample form that a staff member can use to document a resolution between students who are dealing with conflict, and can be used to document the agreements and hold students accountable to what they agreed to. This is intended for older stud …
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