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State appeals court rules lawsuit against former leader of defunct Kinston Charter Academy can proceed
The Indiana State Board of Education dealt a blow Wednesday to a last-minute effort by Indianapolis Public Schools to retain control of three schools poised to be wrested away and handed to a charter school operator.
One A3 charter school defendant pleads guilty to conspiracy
One of 11 people indicted for the alleged A3 charter school scheme has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit a crime.
The defendant, Troy Kukahiko from Hawaii, is now scheduled to be sentenced on May 4.
R.I. education chief recommends 5-year renewal for failing charter school
The commissioner of education has recommended a five-year renewal for a charter school despite at least four years of failing academic achievement, low graduation rates and a poor track record for placing graduates in construction jobs.
These charter schools couldn’t find startup cash. So they got it from Chinese nationals
Like most of the 45 states with charter schools — taxpayer-funded campuses operated largely by private businesses — North Carolina provides no money to new operators for start-up or capital costs.
So Lakeside struck a devil’s bargain of sorts. It entered an agreement with an Arizona company to renovate a former church building, funded, in part, by a federal program that allows private companies to raise money by essentially selling green cards to wealthy foreign nationals.
IPS superintendent: Charter Schools USA fails to meet partnership standards
The facts are that CSUSA’s tenure at Emma Donnan is littered with high staff turnover, declining enrollment and a proposed future governance structure that was not clearly communicated or understood.
Most virtual charter schools’ students don’t graduate
In a state where the average graduation rate is 83%, just 40.2% of Epic’s students graduated on time last year, according to recently released school assessment data from the state Department of Education.
Parents of City on a Hill charter school call for CEO to resign amid layoffs
Parents panicked in wake of layoffs and restructuring at City on a Hill Charter Public Schools are organizing against administrators and calling for the schools’ CEO to resign.
City on a Hill charter school to close New Bedford campus and lay off staff at its Roxbury sites
Once a shining star in the Boston charter school world, City on a Hill is facing a massive financial crisis, prompting trustees on Monday to enact a series of dramatic budget cuts: They will soon lay off 23 teachers, administrators, and other staffers at their New Bedford school and two Roxbury schools and will close the New Bedford campus in June.
Judge orders charter school principal back on the payroll
Ivey-Price filed suit against the school claiming that she was fired because she spoke to Alabama State Department of Education officials about wrongdoing occurring at LEAD. Her lawsuit made a number of startling claims — none more shocking than claims that LEAD administrators had sought to prevent learning disabled students from attending the charter school and also encouraged special needs students to transfer out of LEAD.
Nearly half of New Orleans’ all-charter district schools got D or F grades; what happens next?
A whopping 35 of the 72 schools in the all-charter district scored a D or F, meaning nearly half of local public schools were considered failing, or close to it, in the school year ending in 2019. Since then, six of the 35 have closed.
Turn in records, judge tells former head of Little Rock charter school
The former head of the defunct Covenant Keepers charter school has one week to return its missing financial records or answer to Pulaski County Circuit Judge Mary McGowan.
Another charter school in East San Jose set to close
The East Side Union High School District Board of Trustees last week approved major changes to two charter campuses, which includes closing down Rainier and consolidating it with its sister campus, Tahoma.
Legacy Charter School in Titusville faces closure again over long list of problems
An embattled Titusville charter school is again facing closure after auditors working on behalf of the Brevard School District said they uncovered a number of problems at the school.
Former Akron charter school accused by state of misusing nearly $168,000 in taxpayer dollars
The former head of the now-closed virtual charter school Akron Digital Academy misused $167,753 of school money through a shell vendor, according to a state audit
Chicago Charter School Operator Files for Bankruptcy
A Chicago charter school operator whose vice chair is Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy, with debts that include about $600,000 owed to a cash-strapped local teachers’ pension fund.