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Moms for Liberty activists starting taxpayer-funded charter school
SC chapter of Moms for Liberty — a group best known for opposing LGBTQ rights, pushing for the removal of library books, & fighting racially inclusive curriculum starting their own charter school w/ taxpayer money
Opinion: Charter schools: How vouchers fuel inequality
Charter schools don’t have to abide by many government regulations, including those protecting people from discrimination in admissions. This lax restriction allows charter schools to be biased in admissions.
Philly school officials warn parents ‘it appears’ Math, Civics and Sciences Charter school will close — but some efforts to keep it open continue
Despite efforts to keep Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School open, Philadelphia School District officials told parents this weekend “it appears” the school will close at the end of the year.
Kids Unlimited Academy charter school in White City is closing its doors
Kids Unlimited Academy charter school in White City is closing its doors. Over 40 families must find a new school
Minneapolis charter school to close Friday amid financial trouble
Teachers at the Legacy of Dr. Josie R. Johnson Montessori have spent the last few days trying to explain to students why Friday is the last day of their school.
“You can feel what they are feeling,” said Marlisha Newell, a paraprofessional for the second-grade class. “It’s been really heavy.”
Indianapolis’ Andrew J. Brown charter school ditches for-profit manager in bid for local control
Andrew J. Brown Academy’s school board is in the process of parting ways with National Heritage Academies, which has run the school on the far eastside since it opened in 2003, as its charter faces a renewal decision from the mayor’s Office of Education Innovation. Instead, the school hopes to partner with Paramount Schools of Excellence, a popular local nonprofit charter operator.
Records show JJ Legacy’s financial struggles leading up to closure
The last day of school is supposed to be in June and not in January. “We lost a very special community,” Kristel Porter, whose son attended JJ Legacy Montessori School, lamented to WCCO. “This was a family. A very unique family. Students and teachers said goodbye on Friday as the school must shut down due to mounting debt, which administrators report is roughly $710,000.
Charter Schools Will Desert And Violate Thousands In 2024
Privately-operated charter schools have been around for 32 years. They fail and close every week, abandoning and harming hundreds of parents, students, teachers, education support staff, and principals. Neoliberals cynically call this “free market accountability.”
Minneapolis’ JJ Legacy School closing abruptly; school directors blame ‘accounting issues’
Dozens of students and their families at the JJ Legacy School in north Minneapolis are looking for a new school after the school board voted to close.
School directors said JJ Legacy owes money to the state, because of what the school blamed on an accounting error, and it can’t stay open.
A Colorado charter school network fired its management group. Now, it could face a lawsuit.
That meant that 313 employees across the four campuses — which educate more than 1,950 students in grades K-12 along with nearly 230 additional students in a home school enrichment program — were out of a job at the end of December.
Charlotte charter school spent money on helicopter tour, clothes and first-class travel, records show
Luxury travel included a $690 helicopter sightseeing flight in 2019; more than $6,000 for first-class airfare for Haskell and occasionally other senior staff, and at least $2,500 in private executive car services to get from the airport to conferences. Records show Corvian paid for a group of school administrators to spend $1,200 last year for a private van on a tour of Pikes Peak in Colorado. Like the helicopter sightseeing trip, that tour happened while the group was in town on a taxpayer-funded trip to attend a conference.
Report: Mississippi charter school renewal process ‘lacks transparency’
As for the transparency of the renewal process, the report said it “lacks clarity, objectivity and transparency by failing to set weights for each performance domain (academic, financial, and organizational) and failing to set clear standards for the length of the renewal term.”
Undisclosed financial crisis shutters JJ Legacy School. Parents will have just one week to find new schools for kids.
In an emergency school-board meeting, JJ Legacy’s authorizer said “there is no more money” and the elementary school would need to close January 12. Parents and teachers shared their grief and gratitude, but also questioned why dire financial problems had gone unnoticed.
Colorado charter schools need more transparency and accountability
Colorado charter schools have expanded significantly in the past decade, with 16% of students now attending charter schools, yet current state laws governing their operations are woefully inadequate to ensure full transparency and accountability for the public funding of charter schools. Charter schools utilize taxpayer dollars and, at the same time, charter schools allow private interests to invest in their growth and development.
Inside the unraveling of one of Philadelphia’s most successful charter schools
The board voted to approve the closure of the North Broad Street charter, which has been in operation since 1999. It did so in a way that may have violated the Sunshine Act, according to the Inquirer — because the vote happened in a private session after attendees had already been escorted out.“It was sad to see. So many people were hurt and left with no answers,” said Nia Primus, a longtime teacher who joined MCS this year. “It was not surprising, though,” she added.