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Bill Proposed To Clamp Down On Profit-Making Charter Schools
In two reports (Chartered for Profit and Chartered for Profit II), the Network for Public Education showed numerous examples of the most common techniques. Some charters lease their buildings back from related businesses.
Mike Miles moved Texas school funds to Colorado through a possible shell corporation without a paper trail
An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent’s Colorado charter school nonprofit did business in Texas.
Report: Charter Schools Are Failing Students with Disabilities
The authors of new research on how U.S. charter schools are serving children with disabilities say their findings should alarm state education leaders, the agencies that authorize the independent public schools and nonprofit organizations that support them.
Polk Pre-Collegiate Academy in Winter Haven ceases operations for coming year
Polk Pre-Collegiate Academy, a charter school based in Winter Haven, will not operate for the coming school year, Polk County Public Schools has confirmed.
SC Charter Institute accused of conspiring to tarnish school operator and steal its business
The long-simmering feud became public in May after Erskine, a private Christian college in Abbeville County, sued the education management organization’s parent company alleging it had defaulted on a $1 million loan.
It’s Time to End Federal Funding for Reckless For-Profit Charter Schools
The CHARTER Act leverages the federal government’s primary streams of K-12 education funding—principally the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)—to ensure no federal funds made available under ESEA and IDEA are awarded to a charter school that enters into a contract with a for-profit entity for operating, overseeing, or managing the charter school.
Charter schools struggle to meet special education needs
To date, the report said, charter schools have failed to “consistently address the needs of students with disabilities or, perhaps more importantly, close the gap in educational outcomes between students with disabilities and their peers.”
Charter Schools And The Legacy Of White Flight
Segregation is reintroduced when charter schools like Lashon Academy serve different demographic groups than neighboring public schools.
Letters: Charter school experiment has failed New Orleans children
The state took over 107 of New Orleans’ 120 public schools and turned them into charter schools. Last year, 56 of New Orleans’ 68 public schools had scores below the state average. Thus, after nearly 20 years, over 80% of New Orleans schools remain below the state average. This charter school experiment has been a failure.
Court victory in case challenging nation’s first religious public charter school in Oklahoma
A lawsuit seeking to block Oklahoma from sponsoring and funding the nation’s first religious public charter school can move forward, an Oklahoma judge ruled today.
NC Board of Education upholds closing of troubled Kinston charter school
Children’s Village Academy, a K-8 charter school in Kinston, will be forced to close at the end of this month. The North Carolina Board of Education Thursday rejected its appeal for a fresh start, with one member calling it “a school that appears to be unable to pay its bills or operate within the bounds of the law.”
Charter school’s trustees navigate uncertain road with debt to staff, creditors
After shuttering and filing for bankruptcy in April, LEAF Charter School still owed more than $210,000 to 19 creditors as of last week, according to a trustee. And per a May 20 letter from the state department of labor, the school owed an additional $36,372 for employees’ unpaid wages.
NC charter school ordered to close due to ‘financial mismanagement issues’
The State Board of Education voted Thursday to uphold the decision by the N.C. Charter Schools Review Board to not renew Children’s Village Academy in Kinston when its charter expires June 30. It’s unclear if the school can follow through on an agreement to repay $152,050 in misspent federal grant money.
TEACH Las Vegas surrenders charter, announces plans to close
Board members cited numerous challenges that contributed to the decision to close, such as dwindling resources and the previously severed tie with the school’s management organization.
Upset with ‘slow process,’ judge names independent receiver to close Erie Rise’s finances
An Erie County judge has appointed an independent receiver to wind up Erie Rise’s affairs and preserve its assets, which are to revert to the Erie School District. Erie Rise has about $1.9 million in the bank at the moment, according to evidence presented in court.