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06/27/2019

BREAKING: Pueblo principal and executive director arrested

News 5 Investigates has learned Logan Gogarty, who serves as the principal, executive director and founder of a new charter school in Pueblo District 70 is off the job before the 2019-2020 school year begins. Court records show Gogarty has been arrested and charged with criminal mischief and harassment.

06/27/2019

Chicago Virtual Charter School CEO On Paid Leave As CPS Watchdog Investigates Questionable Spending

The CEO of Chicago Virtual Charter School is in deep trouble, and others could be too, amid investigation into questionable spending.

Class might be over for the summer, but officials at the Chicago Public Schools continue to study what went on at Chicago Virtual Charter School during the 2018-19 school year.

06/26/2019

Former Epic Teachers Describe Pressure to Manipulate Enrollment

Administrators at Epic Charter Schools have been allowing, encouraging or pressuring teachers to manipulate students’ enrollment for years in order to improve employees’ bonus pay, according to at least seven former teachers.

06/26/2019

Florida flunks oversight of charter schools

Florida just got a report card on the state’s oversight of charter schools. The state flunked.

We will note up front that the report came from the National Education Association. The teachers union has developed an adversarial relationship with charter schools — for good reason. What began as a movement to complement public education has become a movement to privatize it.

06/25/2019

Should Philly sell a neighborhood school to the charter company running it?

Critics worry a sale like this could leave the district stranded if the charter school ever folds. Some also oppose, on philosophical grounds, the idea of a charter network owning a building that city children are assigned to attend.

06/24/2019

Oakland: Ex-American Indian Public Charter School director gets probation in grant fraud case

In a plea deal with prosecutors, an author and former Oakland charter school director was sentenced to one year of federal probation for a charge of falsifying grant applications for his school.

06/23/2019

State re-files single theft charge against former charter school director

The ousted director of the now-defunct Halau Lokahi Public Charter School has again been charged with one of four felony theft counts that had been dismissedbecause the state Attorney General took too long to take the case to trial.

06/21/2019

West Side Summit school closes due to low test scores

West Side Summit, a public charter school established six years ago to help bridge the achievement gap for students living in St. Paul’s West Side, announced Friday that it is closing at the end of the month due to poor scores.

06/21/2019

New Orleans high school says 87 seniors can’t graduate after grade-fixing scandal findings

Nearly half of the senior class at John F. Kennedy High School was not eligible to graduate this year, even though dozens of those students walked across the stage at a commencement ceremony held in May, officials with the New Beginnings Schools Foundation said Friday.

06/20/2019

BESE votes to close charter school, Laurel Oaks Academy

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) announced on Thursday, June 20 the closing of two charters schools: Laurel Oaks Academy in East Baton Rouge Parish and Smothers Academy in Jefferson Parish.

BESE says Laurel Oaks had “serious violations of law and policy related to governance, finances, and special education.”

06/19/2019

Who decides whether charter schools open in Pa.? Not just your local school district.

The charter school proposed for West Philadelphia had failed to submit a fully developed curriculum. Its management company hadn’t demonstrated that the schools it runs should be replicated, according to the school district.

06/19/2019

Charter School Lawsuit That Alleged Problems Settled, Audit Not Finished

A lawsuit that alleged problems and potential criminal activity at a local charter school has been settled.

In court records viewed by LevittownNow.com this week in Doylestown, the lawsuit had been marked “settled, discontinued, and ended without prejustice” as of last month. No details on what caused the case to be settled or what the settlement entailed were made public.

06/18/2019

Utah boy sues Soldier Hollow Charter School, saying it ignored ‘red flags’ before his principal raped him on a field trip

He was 10 years old when his charter school principal took a group of students on a trip to the bowling alley as a reward for doing well in class.

But the principal, Charles Weber, ended up violating the fifth grader. He took him to the bowling alley restroom, the boy says, and raped him.

06/17/2019

Protestors voice concerns with charter schools

People gathered outside James Irwin Charter Elementary school to protest Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who visited the school Wednesday morning.

Many of them voiced concerns about the growing number of charter schools nationwide.

06/17/2019

Three East County charter schools forced to close

Nearly 1,000 students left without answers after three charter schools forced to shut down.

In a lawsuit filed by the Grossmont Union High School District in 2015, a judge ruled against the charter schools in Lemon Grove, El Cajon and Lakeside demanding they shut their doors June 28 for good.