District Charter Applicant: Letter of Intent

District charter applicants must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) with requested accompanying information to the Ouachita Parish School Board. The LOI must be received no later than 4:00 pm CST on Friday, March 2, 2018. LOIs should be completed using this form, saved as a single PDF file along will all necessary documents and submit via email to .

All applicants are required to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) prior to submitting a completed application. This Letter of Intent will provide formal notice to the Ouachita Parish School Board that the organization listed below intends to submit a charter school application.

All information presented in this LOI is non-binding.

I. Describe the applicant organization and the nature of the plan to be presented in this application. This information will be used to ensure that your applicant group receives all of the appropriate communications from the school board throughout the district charter application process.

  1. Legal Name of Non-Profit Organization:

B. Organization Type (Check One):

___Louisiana public post-secondary education institution

___Non-profit corporation

___Non-profit corporation established by a parish or municipality

___State agency

C. Primary Contact

Name:

Phone Number:

Email Address:

D. School Session the organization is targeting to receive its first charter school student

enrollments:

E. Does the Non-profit organization intend to outsource the day-to-day operations of the

Proposed Charter School to an Educational Service Provider? Yes or No?

II. Please provide the following eligibility information. Eligibility documentation will be collected at various points throughout the application process. The following eligibility documentation must be supplied in order for an applicant to be eligible to submit a district charterapplication.

  1. Geographic Boundaries to be served. Describe or name all geographical boundaries intended to be served by the proposed charter school applicant. Boundaries may include a parish or city school district or neighboring districts, a community, or neighborhood.
  1. Mission Statement

(All district charter applicants must have an educational mission. Please provide your organization’s mission statement here.)

C. Charter School Applicant(check one)

___Applicant organization currently operates existing charter schools

___Applicant organization does not currently operate any charter schools

D. Organization’s Date of Incorporation

(Please provide a copy of the organization’s Articles of Incorporation with theLetter of Intent.)

III. Applicants must meet various eligibility requirements at the time the application is submitted, unless otherwise noted. Please acknowledge these requirements by submitting a signed copy of the Eligibility Notification Form, found on the following page, as part of the Letter of Intent. All applicants must submit this form, signed by the non-profit board president, as part of the Letter of Intent.

Eligibility Notification Form

All applicants must submit this form, signed by the applicant organization’s board president, as part of the Letter of Intent. All applicants must meet all applicable applicant eligibility requirements set forth in the Common Charter Application document and those required by the District on the district’s website at Please place a checkmark by each of the applicant eligibility documents below as proof of knowledge of these requirements.

___Common Charter Applicant Eligibility Requirements (LDOE)

___Additional Charter Applicant Eligibility Requirements

Charter Board President Signature Date

Name of Charter Applicant Organization

Ouachita Parish School BoardDistrict Charter Application - Letter of Intent