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Troubled charter school under scrutiny again
A local charter school that nearly closed because of about $200,000 in debt is under scrutiny again for how it’s running its special education program.
Parents get 3 days’ notice Cypress Academy in New Orleans will close this week
Three days before summer break at Cypress Academy, the small charter school in Mid-City told parents that Wednesday will be its last day — forever.
CMS report blasts plan to let towns open charter schools: ‘A nightmare for taxpayers’
Charlotte-Mecklenburg school officials trumpeted a new report that said creating municipal charters would be costly for the towns, bad for teachers and have implications for local governments across the state.
North Texas Charter Schools Fare Poorly in Statewide Rankings for Black and Latino Students
Charter schools in North Texas ranked lower overall in quality than traditional public schools in the state, according to a recent report by Children At Risk, and charter schools serving primarily black or Latino students did worst of all in terms of achievement.
Charter School Founder Sentenced
A charter school founder has been sentenced to 55 months in prison. State Prosecutors say that Steven Kunkemoeller and his business partner Marcus May, owner of Newpoint Education Partners LLC, overcharged Newpoint Charter Schools for school items like desks and ipads and kept the profits.
Cash incentives for charter school recruitment: Unethical bribe or shrewd marketing technique?
In recent years, some charter schools have discreetly turned to a controversial recruitment strategy: offering low-income families cash stipends or other prizes in exchange for drawing new students into their schools.
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.