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Costs pile up at CPS-funded charter network over CEO who ‘acted inappropriately’
Chicago’s Noble Network of Charter Schools has spent $326,000 for costs related to the sudden retirement in November of its founder and CEO, who said he’d “acted inappropriately” with recent female graduates of the city’s largest government-funded but privately run charter school network, records obtained by
Beverly Hills businessman quits air board after Times charter school investigation
Beverly Hills businessman Clark Parker has resigned from Southern California’s air quality board following a Los Angeles Time investigation into charter schools he founded with his wife.
Execs at Kenny Gamble’s charter school operator implicated in federal bribery probe
In a statement late Monday, Universal officials said it had placed CEO Rahim Islam on leave after the search warrants were executed late last week. The statement did not specify the nature of the investigation, or which agency was running it, but said the probe’s target was Islam, not the nonprofit launched a quarter-century ago by famed music producer Kenny Gamble.
Former MPS Board President Charged In Charter School Bribery Case
A former Milwaukee School Board president was indicted in federal court Thursday in an alleged charter school bribery scheme.
Michael Bonds is accused of accepting $6,000 in bribes from a Philadelphia-based charter school operator.
Indiana paid for thousands of students who never earned credits at virtual charter schools
Last year nearly 2,000 students never earned a single credit across Indiana’s six virtual charter schools, according to new data — even though most of them were enrolled nearly all year and the schools received funding to educate them.
Charter schools-aligned group spends big in Newark school board race
The top spender in Newark’s school board race is a special-interest group with ties to New Jersey charter schools, according to campaign filings reported ahead of Tuesday’s election.
How a Washington County charter school failed at every step, and was approved anyway
Woodland Prep is a charter school horror story — and it hasn’t even been built yet.
Located in rural Washington County, Woodland Prep, which will open as a K-7 school this fall and add a grade level each year, is everything state leaders assured us could never happen under Alabama’s charter school laws.
SPECIAL REPORT: Taxpayer-backed charter school experiment goes toxic in Easton
More than a dozen former employees told lehighvalleylive.com an administrator is ruining the school. They described an unpredictable taskmaster who screamed at children, joked about zapping a child with a car battery and took pride in crossing out teachers’ photos on a “bingo board” as they were fired.
Study: Missouri’s charter school policies hinder integration
If you’re a black student enrolled in one of Missouri’s dozens of charter schools, you can expect about 81 percent of your peers to be black, too. The same goes for white students attending traditional public schools: If you’re white, you can expect 83 percent of your classmates to be white.
In ‘ugly’ fight between a charter school and its operator, state board won’t take sides
A state advisory board is refusing to take sides in an ugly fight between leaders of a North Carolina virtual charter school and the for-profit company that’s paid millions of dollars a year to educate its 2,400 students.
NC charter school that would pay millions to an Arizona businessman gets state backing
The N.C. Charter Schools Advisory Board recommended that state approval be given to Wake Preparatory Academy, a K-12 charter school that wants to open in Wake Forest in 2020. It would be the first charter school in North Carolina for Glenn Way, an Arizona businessman who has made millions of dollars building, selling and leasing properties to the charter schools he runs.
Parent, teacher defections from Detroit charter school could close it
Michelle Villa’s mind was made up. She would finally pull her kids out of the Southwest Detroit Community School, the tiny charter school her older son Anthony has attended since it opened with help from tennis star Andre Agassi in 2013.
Laurel Oaks Charter School in Baton Rouge could be forced to close over alleged mismanagement
A small charter school in Baton Rouge that got off to a troubled start and continued to face problems with its operations could be forced to close in May.
State recommends closing Smothers Academy charter school amid financial, special education issues
Officials with the Louisiana Department of Education are recommending the closure of Smothers Academy Preparatory School, an F-rated charter school in Jefferson Parish, amid allegations of financial mismanagement and a failure to properly serve disabled students.
More allegations emerge against suspended charter schools CEO
The public board of directors that oversees New Beginnings’ three charter schools engaged attorneys from Adams & Reese to investigate allegations, first uncovered by WWL-TV last week, that Blouin-Williams may have created fake board minutes to make it look like a major school bus contract had received board approval.