The Division of Public School Accountability provides support and guidance to districts with respect to state and federal laws, rules, and regulations. The division is responsible for monitoring public schools for compliance of state and federal laws, rules, and regulation.  The division includes the following units:

•  The Charter Schools unit provides support to entities that plan to open a charter school and to existing charter schools. There are two basic types of public charter schools. A conversion school is a public school converted to a public charter school, and an open-enrollment school is a public charter school run by a governmental entity, an institution of higher learning or a tax-exempt non-sectarian organization. The charter office assists schools requesting waivers of statute, rule, or Standards for Accreditation.
•  The District Support unit provides support to districts that have requested or been identified as in need of support.  The office provides support for school-level improvement planning and district support of the education systems. 
•  The Engagement unit moves beyond basic compliance by inspiring districts, agency partners, families and communities to engage in meaningful relationship-building in which all voices are equally valued. 
•  The Federal Programs unit provides support when guiding schools in the efforts to apply "best-practices" in fiscal and programmatic matters and maintains communication efforts in the program planning stage and implementation stage. The unit engages in consistent collaboration with all local education agencies that are subrecipients of Federal Grant Program funds to supplement and complement the efforts of local school systems, the private sector, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community-based organizations, parents and students to improve the quality of education.
•  The School Performance and Monitoring unit provides support on state and federal laws and disseminates federal and state statistical information to stakeholders regarding school efforts to provide every student with a student-focused education.  The office also provides support for planning and outreach to assist communities in understanding and engaging in school-level improvement.
•  The Standards & Systems Support unit provides support to districts and schools to ensure that the educational foundation is established and maintained through adherence to the Standards for Accreditation. Specialists in this unit can assist with standards for accreditation and general support to districts. 

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