The baseline: does a documented business continuity plan exist? Distinct from disaster recovery — BC covers business operations during the outage; DR covers restoring IT systems after.

Named role accountable for BC plan maintenance and execution. May be the same person as the DR plan owner; the roles are sometimes combined in smaller districts.

Scope of business operations the plan covers — instructional continuity, family/community communication, payroll, food service, transportation. District-wide vs limited coverage.

Cadence and last completed review of the BC plan. Even small environment changes (new SIS, new comms channels) invalidate un-revised assumptions.

Cadence and last completed test of the BC plan. Tabletop exercises count; the test should at minimum walk through a scenario end-to-end with the named stakeholders.

Same self-assessment tier as DR planning: Initial / Defined / Managed / Optimized.

Phone / SIP / messaging infrastructure survivability during outage. Yes = documented failover (cellular backup, SIP redundancy, mass-notification system tested). Partial = some channels failover, others fail. No = comms infra does not survive an event. TxSSC flags this as a critical BC dimension.