Best Practices

Michigan’s authorizers have more than 25 years of hard-won knowledge and experience about how quality charter public school authorizing should look.  

To help advance our work and share effective practices, we have created a series of Best Practice Guides with support from the USDOE Charter School Program grant.  These guides include links to valuable resources and tools gathered from multiple authorizers.  If you find a resource that you would like to learn more about, feel free to reach out the MCCSA at info@charterauthorizers.com or the individual authorizer that provided the resource.  

• Academic Monitoring

• Audited Financial Statements

• Authorizer Commitment and Capacity

• Board Governance

• Board Governance—Public Officials and Appointment Process

• Budgeting

• Charter Application

• Charter Contract

• Charter Law Summary

• Cyber Schools

• Educational Programming and Curriculum

• Education Service Providers Policies

• Financial Oversight

• Guiding Principles, Standards, and Assurances

• MCCSA Standard: Overseeing and Evaluating a Charter Public School

• MDE Assurance and Verification Visits

• Oversight Practices

• Reauthorization

• School Closures

• Special Populations

• Student Records and Files

• Transparency Reporting