• Public School Academy Updates  Listing of recent openings, closings and status changes

• Directories and Lists Current Public School Academies, Recent Updates, Closed Academies, Academies by Authorizer, Search Tools

• PSA Reports Includes legislative reports, charter school profiles, Authorizer reports and other reports relating to Public School Academies.

• Resources for Operating Schools Links to support within Michigan Department of Education. School Report Cards, Free and Reduced Counts, MEGS, CMS, and more

• Transparency Requirements  Memo to Public School Academies reguarding transparency requirements

• Ensuring Timely Access to Federal Funds  Timelines related to written notice and funding for new or significantly expanding Public School Academies

• Webinar Archives This link provides descriptions of past technical assistance webinars as well as viewing access

• CSP Grant Informational Meetings  Learn more about the Charter School Program (CSP) Planning, Dissemination and Implementation Grants. Next informational session is scheduled for January 23, 2013 at Wayne RESA.

• So You Want To Start A Charter School Info Session PowerPoint

• Resources for Developers Information and links for groups wishing to apply for Planning grant funds

• 2011 Schools of Excellence Application Process and Informational PowerPoint

• Charter School Program Grant Applications Planning (new process), replication & expansion (new process), dissemination and implementation grant announcements and applications

• Helpful Tools for Grantees New grantee orientation PowerPoint and PDF files, sample budget and management plan pages, templates, access to MEGs and CMS, and more

• New Schools of Excellence Application Process for Authorizers  For authorizers wishing to designate a newly chartered school as a School of Excellence

• New School of Excellence Authorizer Interview Checklist  MDE's checklist for recommending Schools of Excellence status to new charter schools during the Phase II development team interview

• PSA Authorizer's Handbook  A guiding framework for district-level decision-making related to common opportunities, challenges, and concerns shared by charter authorizers

• Contract Checklist (effective date 3/28/2013)  MDE's guiding standards for approval of contracts for charter public schools. Legislative references are included for each checklist item (effective 3/28/2013)

• Wind-up & Dissolution Procedures 

• Restart Model  Slides from a webinar by the Center on Innovation & Improvement explaining the federal restart model

• EDGAR  Education Department General Administrative Regulations

• 2011 Federal Non Regulatory Guidance  Clarification from United States Education Department regarding eligibility, allowable expenditures, and other administrative rules for the Charter School Program Grant

• Revised School Code Section 6A Public School Academies

• Revised School Code Section 6E Schools of Excellence

• Revised School Code Section 380.1311b Strict Discipline Academies

• State School Aid Act of 1979

• Subgrantee Monitoring, Authorizer Monitoring, and Charter Closures

• USDOE Charter Schools Office

• Michigan Association of Public School Academies (MAPSA)

• Michigan Association of Charter School Boards (MACSB)

• National Charter Schools Institute

• The Center for Education Reform

• The Education Policy Center at Michigan State University