Charter and private school leaders without a district office

Which school is the plan for?

Free checklist of what your state requires in a school emergency plan: contents, filing dates, drills and response terms. For charter and private schools.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door
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ePlan fills in

  • State rule
  • Building footprints
  • Nearest police and fire
  • Hospitals

How it works

School emergency plan requirements checklist, from one answer

  1. Enter your school and state.
  2. ePlan lists your state's plan contents, filing dates and drill rules.
  3. Read the checklist free. Need the full plan written? Start an emergency operations plan draft.

What you get

School emergency plan requirements checklist and 2 more documents

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Emergency operations plan door.

The first draft

School emergency plan requirements checklist (free)

  1. Who must have a plan in your state
  2. Required contents and protocols
  3. Who must be consulted
  4. Filing and update deadlines
  5. Drills and tests
  6. Response terms: Hold, Secure, Lockdown, Evacuate, Shelter

Modeled on: Your state's school safety law (Ohio Rev. Code 5502.262 as the worked example)

Next · 2

Drill log

  1. Date and type of drill
  2. Time to complete
  3. Problems found
  4. Fixes made
Next · 3

Emergency operations plan (paid)

  1. Base plan
  2. Functional annexes
  3. Hazard annexes

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

3 years

is the longest an Ohio school, including a chartered nonpublic school, can go between filing its emergency management plan with the state; it also certifies the plan every September 1
Source: Ohio Rev. Code 5502.262

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Questions

School Emergency Plan: what people ask

Do private schools need an emergency plan?

It depends on the state. In Ohio, yes: the law covers chartered nonpublic schools, community and STEM schools, districts, educational service centers and licensed preschool and school-age child care programs, with a plan for each building.

Source: codes.ohio.gov

How often must the plan be updated?

In Ohio, each school files its plan with the Department of Public Safety at least once every three years and after major building changes, certifies by September 1 each year that it is current, and runs at least one emergency management test a year.

Source: codes.ohio.gov

What is the Standard Response Protocol?

A set of five plain-language response actions from The I Love U Guys Foundation: Hold, Secure, Lockdown, Evacuate and Shelter. Naming them in your plan gives staff, students and responders the same words for each situation.

Source: iloveuguys.org

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