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Charter Schools: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores why they aren’t at all like pizzerias.
TEA accuses former charter school leader of burglary
Officials from the Texas Education Agency have filed a police report alleging that the former board president of the now-defunct San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity stole tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of electronic equipment from school property.
Daniel Loeb, a Cuomo Donor, Makes Racial Remark About Black Leader
The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African-American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done “more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.”
Close bad Philly charter school; it isn’t fit to educate city’s children
The fact that there is any chance the Khepera Charter School in North Philadelphia may reopen underscores a broader problem regarding oversight of all charters.
Charleston Charter School for Math and Science gets 10th principal in 9 years
The Charleston Charter School for Math and Science is starting a new school year Aug. 17 with its 10th principal in nine years. The new principal is Mary Carmichael, who previously served as executive director of the Public Charter School Alliance of South Carolina.
Operators of new West Park charter school linked to accusations of theft from Florida, Ohio schools
Cambridge Education Group, the operator of 19 Ohio charter schools and of a new school about to open in Cleveland’s West Park neighborhood, is distancing itself from recent fraud and racketeering charges in Florida against founder Marcus May.
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.