Renewal School Application – Charter School Specialists

Please find below the questions for the Renewal Application. These questions will comprise 30% of the school’s score in the overall community school contract renewal process and focus on three phases: pre-pandemic performance, pandemic impact and performance, and the governing authority’s plan for recovering from pandemic learning loss. These questions should be answered by the governing authority. The questions provide the governing authority an opportunity to qualify its legislative and moral responsibility to act as stewards of public education dollars for the State of Ohio. As stewards of these public resources, it is your responsibility to ensure that your school is an effective and efficient public school. The governing authority has no other responsibility.

When you read the questions make sure to consider all of the resources, assessments, evaluations, and reports that you have received over the term of the charter such as: reports from superintendents, management organizations, on-site assistance reviews, compliance reports and special education reviews from your sponsor, audits from outside agencies, and annual management company evaluations. Then describe how you used this information to ensure that your school was effective and efficient. Again, these questions are not about how the operators of your school performed, but rather how did you perform your responsibilities, and how you will continue to perform your responsibilities if given a new term.

The application should be completed by October 28 and will be scored in conjunction with the high stakes renewal reports.

Renewal School Application 2023 – 2024

Name(Required)

First Last

Email(Required)

Name of School(Required)

Have the Governing Authority Members reviewed the school’s High Stakes Renewal Report?

Yes

Have the Governing Authority Members reviewed the Renewal School Rubric?

Yes

Do the Governing Authority Members understand that to be eligible for renewal, the school MUST receive a score of at least 75% on the Rubric?

Yes

Explain how the Governing Authority evaluated the school’s performance prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that began March 2020 and provide any actions the governing authority took based on the evaluations. Reference all of the of the resources, assessments, evaluations, and reports mentioned above that were available to the Governing Authority and how the Governing Authority utilized this information to evaluate whether the school was effective and efficient.

*Optional: Upload any documents to support the evaluations conducted prior to the pandemic.

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Explain how the Governing Authority evaluated the school’s performance during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 to June 2021 and provide any actions the Governing Authority took based on the evaluations. Reference all of the resources, assessments, evaluations, and reports mentioned above that were available to the Governing Authority and how the Governing Authority utilized this information to evaluate whether the school was effective and efficient.

*Optional: Upload any documents to support the evaluations conducted during the pandemic.

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Explain how the Governing Authority evaluated the school’s performance post COVID-19 pandemic between July 2021 and the present and how it will evaluate the school’s performance in the future. Reference all of the resources, assessments, evaluations, and reports that the Governing Authority will require and how the Governing Authority will utilize this information to evaluate whether the school is being effective and efficient. Responses should include the current state of any learning loss from the pandemic and the short and long term plans to specifically address the loss.

*Optional: Upload any documents to support the evaluations conducted post pandemic or future evaluations that will be conducted.

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Max. file size: 512 MB.