The Authorizer

• The authorizer is a State Department of Education (DOE).
• The Charter School Office within the DOE has a Director and two staff members.
  Collectively, they are responsible for monitoring the compliance of the 15 charter schools authorized with all State and Federal laws.
• The DOE office uses hanging files in six lateral file cabinets to store records.
• They use three contract field reps (retired school superintendents) to visit the schools and to handle compliance activities.
• The State and Federal document count is 100 different document types.

The Educational Service Providers

• There are three educational service providers who manage ten of the 15 schools.
• Each ESP has one person responsible for their five schools.
• Each ESP person has two five drawer vertical file cabinets for their schools.
• There are three other ESP personnel who frequently review records for each school.

The Charter Schools

• Each of the 15 schools has an Administrator, an office manager and two office clerks.
• Each school has ten lateral file cabinets for maintaining school records.
• In addition, five of the 15 schools maintain an off-site warehouse for storing prior year records in storage boxes. The off-site storage costs $50.00/month.

Corporate Computer, Inc. has furnished a quotation for $54,000.00 per year for the fifteen schools. Two users per school, two users per ESP and three users at the DOE will be licensed. Inflation in this area of the country runs 1.5% per year.