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Clay County charter school to close after consecutive F grades
An Orange Park charter school will close after receiving two consecutive F school grades. The Clay County School District terminated its charter with Orange Park Performing Arts Academy at the direction of the state, officials said.
No summer pay for teachers at closed Detroit charter school
Teachers at Michigan Technical Academy, a Detroit charter school that closed in June, learned this week they won’t get paid this month and likely not next month either, a reversal of what they’d been told in May.
Is the Head of Phoenix Charter School Metro Arts Institute Getting Too Creative With the Rules
The photograph is hard to look at. In it, a middle-aged man wearing a hooded black cape kneels before a teenaged girl. In one hand, he clutches a cloth; his other hand rests on the girl’s feet. She looks sad, and a little scared.
Ohio’s Online Charter Scandal Is a Warning to the Nation
When unscrupulous operators reap huge profits from charter schools—and then invest their profits in political contributions to the state legislators who are supposed to regulate those same charter schools—taxpayers are bound to lose.
Paramount Charter School deemed nightmare by parents Children attended school with rats, obscene graffiti on walls
The holes in the dirt-smeared walls have been filled, but some of the obscene graffiti remains. There are curse words and vulgar drawings, including one that says “F— Kindergarten,” a nasty remnant from what parents say was a nightmare school: the Paramount Charter School in Lauderhill.
U.S. News Kicks KIPP NYC School Off Its List of “Best High Schools” Due to Gary Rubinstein’s Analysis
Let’s begin with the stipulation that the lists of “America’s Best High Schools” based on test scores or AP coursetaking encourage schools to game the system and are invalid on their face.
She did prison time for arson, then became president of a Manatee charter school board. Now she is headed back to jail
Despite spending four years in prison for arson and grand theft, and having multiple arrests for writing bad checks, Lori Bergeron became president of the board at the Manatee School of Arts and Sciences, a small charter school in Bradenton.
New York school allegedly required salary ‘tithe’ to support Islamic movement
Konkur, who says he gave back about $10,000 of his salary over his first year teaching in Utica, provided the Times Union with what he said were copies of checks he wrote to charities in Rochester that share an address with a prominent arm of the Gulen movement.
Some KIPP Houston schools charged unallowable fees, agency finds
Mary Courtney was one of KIPP Houston’s biggest advocates, even as she had to borrow money from relatives to keep up with payments to the charter school.
State appoints receiver to oversee Las Vegas charter school
One of Nevada’s two state-sponsored charter schools under threat of closure has agreed to let an appointed “receiver” take responsibility of the school’s performance in order to remain in operation.
Charter Schools Do Bad Stuff Because They Can
Charter schools have become a fetish of both Democratic and Republican political establishments, but local news reports continue to drip, drip a constant stream of stories of charter schools doing bad stuff that our tax dollars fund.
Charter school won’t pay teachers for final 2 months, union says
A New Jersey charter school ordered to shut down at the end of June may close its doors without paying the final two months of teachers’ salaries, state and local union leaders say.
Charter school founder accused of theft, use of school money on world trips, mortgages, other luxuries
The founder of a charter school company that managed two schools in Jacksonville was charged Monday, along with a business partner, with racketeering and organized fraud allegedly involving 15 charter schools in Florida.
Southfield charter school closes shocking students, staff
How can school be out for summer when there is three weeks to go in the year? Students and teachers at Taylor International Academy in Southfield said their goodbyes sooner than expected Wednesday.
Charter school criticized for mismanagement
PUC Achieve Charter School in northeast Rochester rang up a $470,000 operating deficit in its first year, while its board members and local employees had ceded control of the finances to its national operator, according to an audit from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.