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ECATS Support for NCAPCS Members Only

Public Consulting Group (PCG) is the statewide vendor for ECATS (Special Education Case Management, Medicaid Documentation, and MTSS). PCG has additional planning and management tools to complement the ECATS platform for such things as Section 504, ELL, and more. Would this be something you'd be interested in? They charge a set-up fee of $1500 per module and approximately $10 per 504/ELL/AIG student. They are proposing a 5% discount through a partnership with NCAPCS for our members. See the chart below for an example. Please contact Rhonda if you are interested at [email protected].
   Pricing EDPlan 504 | Per Charter School

 

Year 1

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Making the Most of your NCAPCS Membership

Thank you so much for being a member of NCAPCS. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with the highest level of member value and engagement, we want to welcome you to the Members Only area of our website. This message—and more coming in the near future— will help you get acquainted with the many self-service benefits you can manage from our website.

Please visit your profile to ensure that we have your correct contact information on file. In this area, you'll also be able to update several other key areas of information that will help us serve you better. 

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Mythbusting

This is a post from the Durham Progressive Democrats on Facebook on March 9, 2022. A post like this contributes to the idea that charter schools are private schools and not part of the public school system. How would you refute this claim? As charter school stakeholders, it is important that we are prepared with the facts when these types of conversations arise, As part of our Mythbusting Series, we will address common charter school myths like this one and provide the truth.

Myth 1: “Charter schools are not public schools. They are unaccountable, private schools that take money away from district schools.”

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KLR Partners-EWIF

KLR Partners is offering editing and coaching services to NCAPCS members for the Educational Workforce Innovation Fund Grant (EWIF). This grant will be released September 1, 2022 and will be due October 31, 2022. The grant seeks to identify successful innovative programs that will lead to more students graduating career and college ready, and it focuses on five core areas:
  1. Align public schools with business and industry and colleges/universities.
  2. Provide greater choice for parents/guardians among high quality education options.
  3.  Enhance teacher and principal effectiveness.
  4. Ensure all students possess job-ready skills.
  5. Leverage technology to drive both student and teacher learning.
If you are interested in pursuing this grant but don't have the time to complete it, consider partnering with KLR PartnersKaty Ridnouer, a certified grant writer and veteran educator, will work with you and your team to develop a complete, compliant, and compelling application. This would include upto five (5) hours of strategic planning, advising, editing, and revising. The cost is $875.
 
Contact Katy at [email protected] to discuss a potential partnership for this or other grant opportunities. She's helped schools win over $19M in grant awards, and she can help you too!
 
Katy Ridnouer, MEd, GPC
Author, Certified Grant Writer, Virtual Assistant Principal, and School Start-Up Specialist  
980-333-1939
klrpartners.eth
 
With the right partner, anything is possible. 

Federal Single Audit

Join NYCSA's Deep-Dive Webinar on the Federal Single Audit on Thursday February 17th, at 4 pm

The New York Charter Schools Association will be hosting a special webinar to help schools prepare for filing the federal single audit

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StrongSchools Toolkit

Thank you for your ongoing partnership as we work together to keep our children learning in the classroom. As the pandemic evolves, NC Department of Health and Human Services is committed to providing the most effective and appropriate public health guidance for the current phase of the pandemic. The best tools right now are: getting vaccinated, getting boosted when eligible, wearing a well-fitting mask, testing after exposure, and staying home when sick.  

Contact tracing has been an important public health tool used to slow the spread of COVID at earlier points in the pandemic and remains important in certain high-risk congregate settings such as long-term care facilities, correctional facilities, and homeless shelters. At this phase in the pandemic, individual contact tracing in other settings and in the community is a less effective tool, due to several factors that include:  

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