Staffing and Service Provision

CSI is responsible for providing oversight of the schools’ obligation for staffing highly qualified and appropriately certified related service providers, such as exceptional students’ coordinators, nurses, counselors, psychologists, speech/language therapists, vision specialists, audiologists, interpreters, occupational and physical therapists, etc. These positions are staffed based on needs identified in student IEPs. Also, each charter school must employ a CDE licensed Special Education Coordinator. Each charter school must develop and consistently implement a process to ensure that all its special education employees and contracted personnel are appropriately credentialed and licensed. Hiring staff through a private agency does not negate the responsibility of the charter school to ensure that those individuals are properly qualified. 

The Institute operates as the administrative unit (AU) with authority for the provision of delivering services to exceptional students and legal compliance for students with disabilities and other exceptional students in its individual charter schools. Each authorized Charter School enters a contract to take direction from and work collaboratively with the Institute regarding the provision of these services. In addition, the school must develop and implement the special education Program Plan that is submitted to, and approved by, CSI at the inception of the school or as subsequently modified in accordance with CSI’s policy for approving such modifications including, follow and implement the procedures laid out in the CSI CORE Procedures Manual.