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Whistleblower letter, booting of board member raise Seeworth Academy oversight concerns
Six weeks before agreeing to relinquish its charter and close, the board of an Oklahoma City alternative school for at-risk youth held a special meeting and quickly voted to remove one of its members: pastor and human resources professional Greg Dewey.
Manatee Charter School Contract Terminated For ‘Gross Financial Mismanagement’
In a 95-page ruling, an administrative law judge Friday backed a decision by the Manatee County School Board to terminate a contract with a charter school that he said showed “gross financial mismanagement,” including failing to pay salaries and payroll taxes, getting cut off by food suppliers and facing a shutoff of water service.
Calls mount for investigation of Inspire charter schools
The California Charter Schools Association has expelled the Inspire home charter school network from its membership and is now calling for a third-party investigation, citing concerns about the network’s operational and governance practices.
Some Palm Beach County charter school staffers soon may carry guns
A handful of Palm Beach County charter schools are taking steps to arm members of their own staffs rather than pay for a police officer or security guard to patrol their campuses, school district officials say.
Philadelphia can’t impose conditions on charter operator seeking to open middle school, state appeal board rules
A powerful state board decided on Tuesday that the Philadelphia school district, home to more charter schools than any other public school system in the state, cannot impose conditions on a charter school operator before allowing it to open a new campus in the city.
Charter school transparency rules: clear as mud but changing
If you ask charter school leaders, they are treated exactly the same as public schools when it comes to legal requirements for public records and open meetings.
Charter foes and transparency advocates agree that charter schools are indeed subject to the state’s transparency laws – except when they’re not.
Parents, community members call for closing of Memphis charter school amid investigation
Several of the protesters are part of Memphis Lift, a parent advocacy group. This is the first time in the group’s four-year history that the group has called for a school to close, members said at the protest.
LASD accuses Bullis Charter School of discriminatory enrollment practices
The Los Altos School District sent a strongly worded letter to the Santa Clara County Board of Education on Tuesday demanding that it prevent “longstanding discrimination” by Bullis Charter School, accusing it of seeking to enroll the wealthiest and least needy students in the district.
Scottsdale charter school to shut its doors this Friday
Another Valley charter school is shutting its doors, leaving parents, students, and teachers scrambling to find a new school by next week.
Administrators with the Arts Academy of Scottsdale blame low enrollment numbers for the decision.
More Than 300 Privately-Operated Ohio Charter Schools Have Closed In 20 Years
Across the country, thousands of charter schools have closed in under 30 years. Corruption and poor academic performance are two key reasons for the high failure rate in the charter school sector.
Rowan County charter school placed on ‘allotment restrictions’ amid financial, leadership concerns
The sanctions came after school leaders were unable to competently discuss the details of its more than $1 million budget with certainty or adequately explain why a convicted felon was added to the board of directors.
Turning a Profit through Nonprofit Charter Schools: Communities Get a Bad Deal
Tortured financial relationships like these have been documented in for-profit nursing homes and hospices. As we say elsewhere today, in some fields, the profit motive is just destructive to the public good.
The warnings about safety came for months. But regulators didn’t force Monument Academy to make changes.
Top D.C. education officials knew for months about safety issues plaguing a charter school that serves some of the city’s most vulnerable children but did not force changes, public records and interviews with school employees show.
The Walton plan for the Little Rock School District
Will the robust public call for a unified, democratically controlled school district be heeded? Or will the public outcry at a series of meetings be ignored? Will the governor instead direct the state to adopt Gary Newton’s plan, with more dollars than people behind it?
Charter schools fly below the radar on spending and transparency rules
IDEA Public Schools, based in Weslaco, has allowed the first-class travel perk for six years. That includes footing the bill for the commute of chief financial officer Wyatt Truscheit, who moved from Mission, Texas, to the Los Angeles area in 2013 and comes to Texas every other week, according to tax records. IDEA also pays for Truscheit’s housing while he works in South Texas.