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Parents air frustrations over charter school
Over 70 parents gathered at Evans Towne Center Park on Tuesday to discuss issues with the School for Arts Infused Learning.
The Evans charter school’s lack of transparency was the main topic of the gathering, during which several parents aired grievances over the way recent departures were handled.
Fired charter superintendent named in document crimes
Kevin Burnley, current vice-chairman of the Board of Governors for the School for Arts-Infused Learning in Evans, also told the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office his suspicions that the former superintendent, a former school staffer and a now-dismissed board member conspired to illegally alter the superintendent’s contract.
State Charter Board makes complaints against schools hard to find
Parents scouring the state Charter Board website for information about their child’s school would in recent years have been left with a false impression. For the past three years, each charter school’s profile on the site displayed the message: “This charter has no complaints.”
Ex-treasurer of Mason Classical charter school alleges lax financial oversight, verbal abuse
The complaint states the school’s top administrators, under the guidance of Mason Principal David Hull, “knowingly and willfully created an environment … where fraud can occur without detection.”
Charter school in Maricopa closes just months into the new school year
Just months into a new school year, a charter school in Maricopa is closing its doors. The announcement by officials with Camino Montessori came as a shock to parents and students, who will now be forced to change schools.
Tulsa Charter School To Hold Meeting Over Allegations Of Staff Inappropriate Behavior
There is a special board meeting scheduled today to discuss reports staff members at Tulsa’s Langston Hughes Academy, acted inappropriately. What that inappropriate behavior was still hasn’t been officially revealed.
Langston Hughes Academy Staff Members Accused Of Inappropriate Behavior
Langston Hughes Academy says some staff members accused of inappropriate behavior have been suspended without pay, pending an investigation. The school has also confirmed that they reported those allegations to police.
The Easiest Money Bill Ackman Has Made Lately Is In A Bunch Of Charter Schools
It turns out that Bill Ackman is making good money in the most unexpected of places: financing charter schools for low-income kids.
Guilty verdict for man who defrauded Newpoint charter schools in Pinellas, Hillsborough
The founder of a company that operated charter schools in Pinellas, Hillsborough and five other Florida counties was found guilty late Thursday of using those schools to steer millions of dollars into his personal accounts.
Why we’re suing
Imagine your hard-earned tax dollars being taken away from your kids’ local school district and instead given to an unaccountable online school that was falsifying attendance data and failing to graduate students at staggering rates.
This lawmaker stands to earn at least $11M on his own charter schools. His votes helped lay the groundwork.
Near the end of the 2018 legislative session, lawmakers were poised to pass a budget that would give educators large raises and require greater financial accountability for both district and charter schools. House Speaker J.D. Mesnard and Rep. Eddie Farnsworth had other plans.
New Castle charter school closes suddenly, students scramble to find new school
With the school year already well underway, hundreds of students from the Delaware Academy of Public Safety and Security, commonly referred to as DAPPS, found themselves at this quickly organized school fair Wednesday searching for a new place to attend class.
Audit finds steep salaries, misuse of funds at Clayton Valley charter school
The married top leaders of Clayton Valley Charter High School raked in almost $850,000 in less than two years before leaving the school last spring, a county investigation found.
Parents sue charter school over handling of reported assault
Parents of a former Boise charter school student are suing the school because they say administrators created a hostile school environment by failing to adequately respond after their daughter reported she had been sexually assaulted by another student.
‘Chaos At Kamalani’: Why It’s So Hard To Run A Charter School
Founders of an arts-focused charter school in central Oahu are facing mounting complaints from parents in the midst of rapid teacher turnover and signs of a possible shift away from the school’s original mission.