Technical Assistance Resources

• CSP Eligibility

• High Quality Criteria for Existing Charter School Operators

• PreK Expansion Overview

• MAPCS Technical Assistance Events

• Maryland Charter School Application Appeal Process

• Maryland State Department of Education releases public school test score data and other school indicators annually on the Maryland Report Card

• National Charter School Resource Center – The National Charter School Resource Center produces and gathers templates, best practices, and videos from supporting education organizations to provide the ultimate resource bank for the charter sector.

• Maryland Charter School Law

• CSP Community Needs Assessment Tool

• Community Needs: Strategies for Charter Schools and Authorizers (wested.org) – As part of a body of work that focuses on the role of community needs and interests in charter authorizing, this brief provides guidance to charter school operators and authorizers about promising practices for assessing community needs. The brief provides examples of strategies that two charter schools and two authorizers have used for assessing community needs.

APPLICATION DOCUMENTS

• Link to Running FAQ

• Request for Application (RFA)

• Required: Budget Template

• Maryland CSP Allowable Cost Guidance

• Required: Notification Letter to Authorizer

• Weighted Lottery Policy

• Certifications and Assurances

• Community Needs Assessment Tool

• High Quality Charter School Criteria for Existing Operators

CSP GRANT WEBINARS & TRAININGS

• 1/29/25: Application Portal opens; application materials available online

• 1/30/25: Intro to CSP Webinar, Slidedeck, Webinar Replay

• 2/4/25: Application Webinar, Slidedeck, Webinar Replay

• 2/7/25: Budget Webinar, Slidedeck, Webinar Replay

COMPETITIVE PRIORITY POINTS

• Locale Lookup Tool –“Rural community,” for the purposes of the Federal CSP Grant application, is a community served by one or more schools (a) with a locale code of 32, 33, 41, 42, or 43; or (b) that serve a significant portion of students that come from areas with a locale code of 32, 33, 41, 42, or 43. Applicants are encouraged to retrieve locale codes using  this tool.

• CSI determination- For high need LEA for the purposes of the Federal CSP Grant Application, MAPCS has used the percentage of students in the LEA that are a percentage of the students of schools in the district that have a percentage of 10% or more are considered high need LEA’s. CSI LEA’s are Baltimore City and Prince George’s Co as designated by MSDE.

• Maryland CSP Allowable Cost Guide

• Subgrantee Monitoring Guide Revised 2025

• Subgrantee Monitoring Guide Redlined

• Subgrantee Website Requirements

• ACH Authorization Form

• Sample Federal Time Tracking Form for Salaried Employees

• Sample Procurement Checklist $10K-$250K 

• Sample Procurement Checklist over $250K

• Internal Controls Policy Guidance

• SEFA Template for Subgrantees

• Sustaining Effective Programs Even When Grant Funding Runs Out- Toolkit

  • Evaluating and Sustaining Funds Worksheet

• On Demand Governance Resource Page

  • Board Officer Webinar Completion Form

• Availability of Federal Funds

MARYLAND DISTRICT AUTHORIZER SERIES

• Authorizer 101 Webinar

• Application and Start-Up Webinar 

• Start-up and Monitoring Webinar

• Model Charter Application May 8, 2025, 12-1pm, Registration Link

AUTHORIZER RESOURCES

• MSDE Charter School Liaison Resource Page

• National Network for District Authorizing (NN4DA) Resource Library

• National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA)

• National Charter Schools Institute

• Federal Funds for Charter Schools One-Pager

• PreK Expansion Overview

• CSP Eligibility

• High Quality Criteria for Existing Charter Schools

• MAPCS Operator Resource Pages

• MMP CSP PREK EXPANSION RESOURCES

• PreK Expansion Grant Flyer

• 10 things to Think About During the PreK Planning Year Webinar Slidedeck

• PreK Expansion Overview

• SCHOOL TO SCHOOL COLLABORATION

• School to School Sharing Stipends & RFP  for Maryland Charter Schools

• Availability of Federal Funds

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• 10 Things to Think About in the PreKindergarten Pilot Year

• PreK Expansion Overview CSP