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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.”
Feedback: Noble Charter Schools Story Hit A Nerve
Earlier this month, we posted a story about discipline practices inside Noble Network of Charter Schools, which educates approximately one out of 10 high school students in Chicago. One former teacher quoted in the piece described some of the schools’ policies as “dehumanizing.”
The Danger of California Charter Schools
But although charter schools are intended to offer students better educational opportunities, they also pose a danger of making inequities worse than they were.
The DC Public Charter School Board Knew One of D.C.’s Oldest Charters Was Financially Troubled and Didn’t Intervene
Washington Mathematics Science Technology Public Charter High School’s financial woes have existed for much longer than the DC Public Charter School Board let on.
Tulsa charter school suspends principal, other employees for alleged grade tampering
The Tulsa charter school, Langston Hughes Academy for Arts and Technology, is under investigation after accusations arose that the principal, assistant principal, principal’s secretary and special education coordinator changing students’ grades.
Raleigh charter school on state ‘watch list’ for employing teacher with suspended license
Longleaf School of the Arts allowed one of its teachers to continue teaching English and social studies during the 2014-15 school year despite her license being suspended at the time for a testing violation, according to state records.
Whistleblower: School used software to get more state money
Education regulators are reviewing a whistleblower’s claim that Ohio’s then-largest online charter school intentionally inflated attendance figures tied to its state funding using software it purchased after previous allegations of attendance inflation, The Associated Press has learned.
Texas eighth-graders asked to list positives of slavery; charter school chief apologizes
A San Antonio charter school has apologized after a teacher asked students in an eighth-grade American history class to list the positive and negative aspects of slavery.
Charter school where sex offender was arrested is on probation
A police report lists Randy Smith as the maintenance man at Cincinnati Technology Academy. But the superintendent claims Smith never worked there.
Two charter schools led by former Mayor Willie Herenton will close
Du Bois High School of Arts and Technology and Du Bois High School of Leadership and Public Policy were already in danger of losing their charters because of poor academic performance. The charter network is led by former mayor and Memphis City Schools superintendent Willie Herenton.