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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.
I was a teacher at a charter school for a year. Here’s why you shouldn’t believe the hype that Betsy DeVos is trying to sell.
I was an English teacher at a New York City public school from 2005 to 2009 — until I got burnt out and decided to quit.
UPDATE: District moves to close troubled Wellington charter school
Palm Beach County public school leaders are moving to shut down Eagle Arts Academy, saying the controversy-plagued Wellington charter school is hemorrhaging money and that its executive director last year steered tens of thousands of dollars from the school into one of his companies amid the school’s financial woes.
‘Newpoint scam’ trial heading to jury Friday
Deliberations are scheduled to begin Friday in the trial of an Ohio businessman accused of defrauding charter schools in Pensacola and other parts of the state out of nearly $1 million in public funding.
One of the city’s oldest charter schools is so broke that it can’t make payroll
The finances of one of the first charter schools in the nation’s capital have grown so dire that its survival is threatened and its ability to pay teachers in doubt, a financial analysis shows.
Fraud investigator, School Warehouse manager take stand at Newpoint trial
According to court documents, School Warehouse sold items like desks and iPads at inflated prices to charter schools run by Newpoint Education Partners.
For charter schools, recently it’s been bad news galore
For charter schools across the state, the news has been relentlessly bad in recent months: A Western Massachusetts principal fired after a drug arrest. A Dorchester school placed on probation amid allegations of financial mismanagement.
Publicly funded charter school system in ‘state of chaos,’ SC senator says
A public feud between the state’s publicly funded charter-school district and four of its low-performing schools is drawing pointed criticisms from lawmakers, asking whether charter schools, granted more freedoms in exchange for better results, are working.
State ethics lawyer says charter school leader or her relatives should be fired for breaking nepotism laws
A lawyer for the state Board of Ethics asked a panel of judges last week to order the firing of Doris Roché-Hicks, CEO of Friends of King Schools, for violating nepotism laws. If not, the lawyer said her son-in-law and sister should lose their jobs.
In debt, with too many unlicensed teachers, Indiana College Preparatory School loses charter
Roiled by unsustainable debts, a disintegrating school board, and violations of state requirements, Indiana College Preparatory School lost its charter and will close at the end of the school year.