To improve public education in Arizona by sponsoring charter schools that provide quality educational choices

Newsletter & Guidance

ASBCS Newsletter

The Board is pleased to introduce you to ASBCS monthly newsletter. This monthly newsletter will keep you informed of important and helpful information regarding charter operations.

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Call for Technical Review Panel Members

The Board seeks individuals with experience in school leadership, finance and operations, charter management, and local context to evaluate charter applications for schools opening in the 2018-2019 school year and beyond. Technical Reviewers are responsible for vetting charter applicants to ensure the applicants provide objective merit-based analysis with their Technical Review Panel (“TRP”) to ultimately provide the Board a recommendation of approval or denial of the new charter application. View the TRP Scope of Work and Interview Questions.

To apply submit a current resume and complete responses to the TRP interview questions by May 18, 2018 to [email protected]. For additional questions please contact Ericka Ciganek, Education Program Specialist at 602-364-3111.

Charter Holder Liaisons

To provide clear and consistent communication between charter holders and Board staff, each charter holder has been assigned to an Education Program Manager (“EPM”). The EPM assigned to a charter holder is the primary point of contact for the charter representative and is responsible for all processes (interval review, renewal, amendment requests) for that charter holder.

View the filterable list of EPM assignments. For each charter holder the list identifies the EPM assigned to the charter as well as the EPM’s phone number and email address.

Eligibility Criteria

To ensure a minimum standard of achievement and operations charter holders should strive to obtain before expanding, the Board has updated the eligibility criteria for expansion requests. The eligibility criteria now includes the financial and operational dashboard and considers a charter holder’s associated charter schools and associated charters.

View the Eligibility Criteria