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The mess in Arizona’s charter school sector
The pro-school-choice Center for Educational Reform ranks Arizona as the state with the fewest regulations and restrictions for charter schools in the country.
Trenton’s $17M International Academy charter school faces potential shutdown
A $17 million charter school on Perry Street that promised to offer high-quality education when it opened last September is now at high risk of being shut down.
New Mexico’s education chief blasted for linking charter schools with ‘Manifest Destiny’
New Mexico’s education chief is being blasted for linking the growth of charter schools to the controversial 19th-century idea of American expansion known as Manifest Destiny. Even after he apologized to American Indian leaders, criticism of his remarks has persisted.
Los Angeles Deserves to Know More About Ref Rodriguez’s Role as Charter School Landlord
The recent revelation that the campaign money-laundering case against Los Angeles school board member Ref Rodriguez has expanded to include separate allegations of conflict of interest reveals a hard truth: the public knows far too little about how our money is being spent on charter schools.
Charter school teachers fired for violating alcohol abuse policy
Imagine West Gilbert, a K-8 charter school, fired six teachers for violating its alcohol abuse policy on campus during school hours, according to spokesperson Rhonda Cagle.
Montini: Why charter schools get to cheat
I asked around and was told that students enrolled in Arizona’s many charter schools are severely punished if they are caught cheating. Weird. Because for the people who own and operate charter schools, it’s just the opposite.
A charter school owns condos. Can students use the hot tub?
Since 2011, Accelerated has purchased two pricey condos in high-end neighborhoods – one in Houston, and one in Dallas – while paying its teachers below-average salaries and housing its fewer than 300 students in structures resembling portable trailers, some without windows.
Texas charter schools struggle with classroom overcrowding
An annual report suggests that several charter schools in Texas have some of the state’s largest class sizes. The Texas Education Agency report said most of the state’s roughly 8,700 public schools had about 22 students per teacher during the 2016-2017 school year. More than half the schools averaging at least 30 students per classroom were charter schools.
Charter school advocates get down and, some say, dirty
Caroline Ayres just wanted to hear about her kids’ school system. What she got was the hybrid of a political rally and a revival meeting. “It was,” she recalls, “an attempt at conversion via emotional outreach.
Teacher at all-girls school busted for nude pics of student, molestation
A teacher at an all-girls Bronx charter school seduced a 12-year-old student into sending naked photos of herself to him on Snapchat — and then molested her after class, officials said.
Report: Low Graduation Rates At Texas Charter Schools
When the exclusions and exceptions the state grants charter schools are stripped away, Texas charter schools have an average graduation rate almost 30 percentage points lower than the state’s traditional school districts.
Former charter school accused of fraud over taxpayer dollars
A Broward charter school once accused of inflating its enrollment numbers to get state dollars now faces more allegations of fraud after it closed and re-opened as a private school
Arizona charter school hired gym teacher despite revoked license, past misconduct
A teacher at an Arizona charter school has been fired after a concerned parent alerted the school that he had been fired from previous teaching jobs in the past for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a student.
Related-party charter school deal generated healthy profit for developer from public funds
A real estate holding company based in Syracuse cleared more than $300,000 in profit at the expense of a charter school in Greece earlier this year, according to real estate and financial records obtained by the Democrat and Chronicle.
Chicago teachers plan sues charter school operator over missing pension contributions
Chicago Public School Teachers’ Pension & Retirement Fund is suing Prologue Inc., the operator of the closed Joshua Johnston Charter School for Fine Art and Design, for allegedly failing to report the employment of some licensed teachers and failing to pay pension contributions on behalf of teachers.