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Tulsa World editorial: Time to scrutinize funding to virtual charter schools
Virtual charter schools continue taking up a larger share of the overall public education budget at the expense of traditional brick-and-mortar schools.
Ethics probe: Charter school leader wanted to hire family members
In the October settlement agreement, Gilbert-Mosley admitted that she violated ethics laws by authorizing employment contracts with her daughter and mother.
In Pa., most cyber charter schools operate with expired state agreements
Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School enrolled nearly 2,600 students last year, several hundred more than it did in 2012. That’s the year the cyber school’s charter expired.
Lower state report card grades open door for massive expansion of vouchers, charter schools
Tougher state tests and lower grades for schools and districts across Ohio have opened the doors for a potentially massive expansion of vouchers and charter schools.
Charter school hired principal with criminal past, then fired him for sexual harassment
The allegations against Green include a shocking audio recording, made by former William J. Fischer social studies teacher Lindsay Garcia, who claims Green is the man in the recording telling her he wants to “snatch up, kidnap, subdue… someone we both know.”
2 Goodyear charter school employees indicted in $2.2M fraud case
Two former employees of a now-closed charter school in Goodyear were indicted for fraud Wednesday, months after the former director pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft.
Report: More than 100 Arizona charter schools are in danger of closing
More than 100 charter schools in Arizona are in danger of closing, due to financial mismanagement, declining enrollment, and mounting debt.
Ex-basketball coach at Chicago charter high school charged with sexually assaulting 2 girls
A basketball coach at a charter school on Chicago’s West Side has been charged with sexually assaulting and molesting two underage female team members on repeated occasions at the school and elsewhere.
Many SC charter schools are racially imbalanced, triggering investigations
Most South Carolina public charter schools do not reflect the racial makeup of the school districts where they are located, according to student headcounts from the 2017-18 school year.
Charter school reacts to sending students to unlicensed tutoring facility
Turns out the center which had been operating out of a row home on Minnesota Avenue, SE for at least a year never had business license.
UPDATE: Three Northwest Indiana charter schools warned of financial concerns in state audits
A series of independent audits made public at the end of 2018 by the Indiana State Board of Accounts warned of financial stress in three Lake County charter schools.
Chino Valley Unified: County school board had conflicts of interest in charter school vote
According to Chino Valley Unified staff, at least two county school board members had conflicts of interest that should have kept them from voting on the proposed charter school on Dec. 3.
DC mom blows whistle on unlicensed business serving charter school students
Questions remain unanswered on how an unlicensed alternative charter school was able to operate in D.C. while taking in special needs students from at least six different charter schools.
This Indiana virtual charter school graduated just 2 percent of its students in 2018
One of the state’s largest and most controversial virtual charter schools graduated a smaller percentage of students than nearly every other public school in the state in 2018, new state data shows.
D.C. officials investigate facility where charter schools send disruptive students
D.C. education officials are investigating a learning center operating out of a Southeast Washington house where charter schools temporarily send disruptive students and children awaiting transfer to other schools — even though the facility has no business license.