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Eagle Arts principals resign as charter school withholds teachers’ pay
Eagle Arts Academy’s two principals resigned Monday and several teachers threatened to quit after the Wellington charter school withheld paychecks last week and the school revealed that employees will not be paid for at least another week.
ATLANTA CHARTER SCHOOL UNDER FIRE FOR BLACKFACE DEPICTION
An Atlanta charter school is under fire for conveying blackface masks while reciting a historic African-American poem that symbolizes black oppression.
Sentencing set for Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School founder Nick Trombetta
The July 10 sentencing will come nearly five years after Trombetta, 62, was indicted by a grand jury on 11 counts of tax fraud and conspiracy in August 2013. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS in August 2016.
Florida lawmakers’ wives on new charter school boards
Though far removed geographically from each other, two new Florida charter schools share an uncommon feature: They both have a board member who is married to a state lawmaker heavily involved in crafting state policy on charter schools.
Carpe Diem charter school closing this year, displacing 200 students and teachers
Carpe Diem Preparatory Academy in College Hill is closing its door at the end of the school year, displacing about 200 students and teachers.
Losing students and money to Sturbridge charter school, Southbridge asks for legislative aid
“The Southbridge school district has been taken over by the state, and then the state allowed a charter school to come in right next door and siphon off kids from a school district that was already losing kids,” Mr. Durant remarked.
Ohio businessman convicted of bilking $1 million from Florida charter schools
A jury has convicted an Ohio businessman of bilking $1 million from Florida’s public charter schools. An equal amount may have gone missing in Ohio. But for a second straight year, no elected official — not the governor, the attorney general or Summit County’s top prosecutor — will say whether anyone here is paying attention.
State Charter School Authority votes to shut down Argent Preparatory Academy formerly Silver State Charter School
The court-appointed receiver Joshua Kern recommended closure after two years of trying to fix perennially low graduation rates, high student turnover and falling enrollment.
Thornton Charter School Faces Sexual Harassment, Discrimination Complaints
Parents at Stargate Charter School in Thornton, the largest charter school for gifted and talented students in the state, are outraged at what they say has been the school’s total disregard of its legal obligations to protect and serve all students.
Mount Vernon ethics board cites Mayor Richard Thomas for improper charter school payment
The Mount Vernon Board of Ethics has accused Mayor Richard Thomas of collecting more than $100,000 as a trustee of the Amani Public Charter School in violation of state education law.
Charter school administrator is ‘praying for a wall’ to stop illegal immigration, while her diverse students must speak English and learn Western manners
A network of Utah charter schools is facing backlash over its top administrator’s use of social media, including a February statement that criticized illegal immigration for fueling a drug “scourge.”
Phoenix Starshine Academy charter school under fraud investigation
“This is probably one of the most egregious, most outrageous things I’ve ever read about a charter school,” Kathy Senseman, President of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, said in a special session Tuesday.
Phoenix charter school to close due to ‘egregious financial mismanagement’
State regulators plan to shut down a Phoenix charter school for “egregious financial mismanagement” after investigators determined the school’s president spent thousands of dollars of school funds on personal trips and her own bills, among other violations.
Jury convicts Ohio man over charter school scheme
During the trial prosecutors said Kunkemoeller intentionally overbilled Newpoint charter schools around the state for goods like computers, iPads and furniture. He then allegedly split the proceeds with the owner of the company that ran the schools.
State probes charter group that backed Fairfax school
State, Sonoma and Marin County education officials — along with a Petaluma school district — are seeking documents from an umbrella charter group that formerly backed a Fairfax school to see if the charter group’s financial house was in order.