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Fiscal Year 2022 Final Charter School Annual Budget Forms

Charters should use these final forms and instructions for completing their charter school budgets. Save the files to C:\CSFORMS\. In addition, the C:\CSFORMS\ folder should also include the most recently revised version of the charter's fiscal year 2021 budget files. Read the Submission and Publication Instructions for additional information.

All charters should use the final budget form for budget revisions during the fiscal year. The Arizona Department of Education will not accept budget revisions submitted on the preliminary budget form.

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Office spreadsheet icon Final Budget Forms330 KB
Office spreadsheet icon Budget Adoption Hearing Notification41 KB
PDF icon Submission and Publication42.27 KB
PDF icon Final Budget Forms Email134.84 KB
PDF icon Preliminary Budget Forms Email133.99 KB
Legal Compliance Questionnaire

This Legal Compliance Questionnaire is for use in audits of charter schools sponsored by universities and community college districts that are exempt from complying with the USFRCS. Charter schools the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools sponsors should continue to refer to the guidance the board issues.

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File Legal Compliance Questionnaire.docx73.86 KB
Fiscal Year 2020 and Fiscal Year 2021 COVID-19 Reporting Forms

These forms collect fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2021 information on how all Arizona charter schools spent and plan to spend stimulus monies in the federal acts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Charters must submit the completed form to the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) via the Common Logon no later than August 25, 2021. The fiscal year 2021 form must be submitted to ADE no later than October 1, 2021.

The files contain detailed instructions for completing and submitting the forms. All charters should use the Accounting data tab to auto-populate many of the amounts within the fiscal year 2021 COVID-19 Reporting Form.

Charters that completed the FY 2020 Accounting Data Annual Financial Report (AFR) Package should use the accounting data from the Accounting data tab within their final FY 2020 AFR to complete the fiscal year 2020 COVID-19 Reporting Form. Charters that completed the FY 2020 Standard AFR Package should use their accounting records to manually input all amounts within the form.

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Office spreadsheet icon FY 2021 COVID19 Reporting Form2.13 MB
Office spreadsheet icon FY 2020 COVID19 Reporting Form2.13 MB
Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Financial Report

These zip files contain forms and instructions for completing the charter school AFR, including the School-Level Reporting Form and Food Service AFR; Classroom Site Project Narrative; and ADE's Results-Based Funding Expenditure Report. A.R.S. §15-904(F) requires all charters, including those that operate only 1 school, to complete a school-level report.

Select the zip file that corresponds to the number of schools in your charter and extract the files to C:\CSFORMS\. In addition to the extracted files, the C:\CSFORMS\ folder should also include the most recently revised versions of the charter's FY 2021 budget and FY 2020 AFR files. The Submission and Publication Information contains instructions for completing the AFR.

Click here to view a short video, issued in June 2020, describing the auto-populate feature used in the FY 2021 charter school AFR and School-Level Reporting Form. 

Click here to view a short video describing the School-Level Reporting Form that was issued with the draft form in June 2020.

Click here to view a short video describing the School-Level Reporting Form for charters with 1 school.

 

 

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PDF icon Submission and Publication69.99 KB
Package icon AFR Package for charters with 1 school823.9 KB
Package icon AFR Package for charters with multiple schools1.58 MB
File Formula Corrections21.38 KB
Charter Sponsor Annual Report

Charter sponsors should use this form to submit its annual report to the Arizona Auditor General on or before October 1 of each year.

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File Form126.85 KB