Mission: The ESCLEW Community Schools Center is a student-centered authorizer of charter schools, advancing quality educational opportunities across the state of Ohio.
Goals:
- Academic Performance: Ensure academic growth of all sponsored schools through the collection and review of assessment data, as compared to state report card data and contract performance accountability framework
- Compliance: Promote the operational success of all sponsored schools by ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and rules and maintaining strategic partnerships that deliver sustained value
- Quality Practices: Complete our work through the implementation of a performance management system that aligns with the national standards for sponsoring
- Professional Growth: Recruit and retain staff members with expertise in educational leadership who are passionate about community schools, and provide professional development activities that aligns to sponsoring priorities
Roles and Responsibilities to Sponsored Schools
It is the responsibility of the sponsor to provide monitoring, oversight, and technical assistance to all sponsored schools.
- Monitor compliance with all applicable laws and with the terms of the sponsorship contract
- Monitor and evaluate the academic, fiscal, and organizational/operational performance of all sponsored schools on a monthly basis
- Review financial and enrollment records on a monthly basis
- Offer professional development and technical assistance designed to benefit the schools
- Take steps to intervene in order to correct performance concerns