#ANOTHERDAYANOTHERCHARTERSCHOOLSCANDAL
Flagler Schools prepares for possible shutdown of Palm Harbor Academy
The charter school had transferred many of its lowest-performing students to a private school on the same campus immediately before state assessments, preventing those students from taking them and affecting the school’s grade, according to district officers.
Charter school board members get restraining order against president, to vote on reinstating superintendent
A Tulsa County district judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order against Carmen Pettie, president of the Langston Hughes Academy for Arts and Technology board of directors, after three fellow board members claimed she misled them regarding grade-tampering allegations at the charter school.
Employee at a D.C. public charter school charged with sex crimes
A 41-year-old man who works at a D.C. public charter school has been arrested and charged with several counts of child sexual abuse, D.C. police said.
Dallas-area charters lag behind traditional public schools, according to new report
About 45 percent of area school district campuses earned A’s and B’s while only 27 percent of charter schools got those top marks in an annual report released Wednesday by Houston-based Children At Risk.
Two top administrators, husband and wife, depart Clayton Valley Charter High School
Officials at Clayton Valley Charter High School are being tight-lipped about the departure of its executive director and chief program officer, who are husband and wife.
Has Basis used Arizona tax money to open schools in Texas, Washington, D.C.?
Basis, which last year received about $84 million in state money to operate its Arizona schools, secured loans for its out-of-state schools by pledging as collateral future tax dollars and its Arizona campuses.
Board president charged $1,500 in fine dining on Harney charter school’s credit card
A world away from his Central City school, where 97 percent of students are considered economically disadvantaged, the head of a charter school board racked up $778 over six months at an upscale restaurant on St. Charles Avenue.
Analysis: 1 in 4 charters shows significant financial red flags
Charter operators representing 138 of the state’s 538 charter schools showed financial warning signs in the 2016-17 school year, according to an Arizona Republic analysis of data from the state charter board.
Lawyer convicted of charter school scam involving Fattah Jr.
A Philadelphia-area attorney and accountant was convicted of embezzlement this week for running a charter school scam that also brought down the scion of one of Philly’s formerly most powerful political families.
Scottsdale Unified scandals prompt changes to state law, new criminal penalties
Under the new law, school districts will be required to post their budgets and audit information on their websites, but a last-minute amendment to the bill exempts charter schools from those rules along with the new procurement penalties.
Why these Denver charter schools are closing or delaying opening
Suffering from low enrollment, two Denver charter schools will close, one will delay opening by a year, and another has just over a week to attract enough students to open as planned in August.
Oasis Charter School administration on potentially having charter revoked
The school is under investigation by the Alisal Unified School District. Over a dozen complaints are being investigated by the Alisal Union School District ranging from lack of transparency, to underperforming test scores, to reports that students were allegedly required to clean the school bathrooms.
Two Fairfield County charter schools put on probation
Vowing the days of rubber-stamping charter school renewals are over, the state Board of Education put a Bridgeport and a Stamford charter school on probation Wednesday.
This public charter school became the whitest in the KC district. It’s trying to change
The leaders of the academically high-ranked French language immersion charter admit that’s jarring for a school in the Kansas City Public Schools district, where almost 9 in 10 students are minorities. It’s also a big change: The school started out nearly two decades ago well-mixed.
Was Houston ISD charter school plan a ‘real estate scam?’
Largely lost in the loud, raucous debate last week over what the Houston Independent School District should do with 10 failing schools, a concern was raised about the HISD proposal that would have handed the schools to a charter school group the district’s union president described as a “real estate scam.”