#ANOTHERDAYANOTHERCHARTERSCHOOLSCANDAL
State board considers revoking charter of new school with just 15 students
SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy was approved in 2020 with plans to serve 150 students in its first year between kindergarten and first grade. But the school reported an enrollment of 12 students to the Mississippi Department of Education earlier this fall and told Mississippi Today this week that number has risen to 15. School leaders also said the school currently has six full-time teachers and 11 employees overall.
NC Charter Accused of Misspending Money & Conflict of Interest Violations.
NC Charter Accused of Misspending Money & Conflict of Interest Violations
Fledgling charter school closes permanently
Charter school officials apologized “for any convenience or disruption” to the school’s families.
3 Decades In, Charter Schools Continue to Face Legal Challenges
Three decades have passed since the first public charter school opened its doors. More than 3 million of the nation’s K-12 students now attend them. But debates over how and where charter schools operate are still playing out in courts and statehouses across America.
Judge strikes down Kentucky charter school bill
Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled today that the new law violated the state constitution and that public funding can’t support private schools.
Corvian charter school reports $50K embezzlement after firing its director
Corvian Community School, a K-12 charter school in northeast Charlotte, reported to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Friday that an employee made $50,000 in unauthorized credit card charges for clothes, a hotel room and a helicopter ride.
One of California’s largest charter school networks lacked years of records to justify tens of millions in spending, state audit finds
Inspire, a home school charter network, for years lacked records to justify its claims for state funding. The Inspire network, which included two schools authorized out of San Diego County, also overreported student attendance. Inspire’s lapses resulted in part from some of the same financial practices and weaknesses in oversight that have allowed other California charter school operators to get more taxpayer money.
AG Ellison reaches settlement with charter school involved in Feeding Our Future fraud
Gateway’s founder and executive director put almost $300,000 of school funds toward companies owned or controlled by three of the school’s directors or officers.
Students, parents frustrated as charter school forced to close in New Orleans East
“I’m upset. My daughter is saying, ‘What do I do? Where do I go now?,'” said Giselle Bustillo, a Living School parent and immigrant from Honduras.
Former Burnsville charter school founder allegedly diverted nearly $300,000 in school funds to himself, others
A former Burnsville charter school leader allegedly diverted nearly $300,000 of the school’s money to himself and two other former school leaders, according to an investigation by the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. The Attorney General’s Office alleges that Abdiaziz Farah, the founder of Gateway STEM Academy, improperly sent close to $300,000 to businesses controlled by himself, Mahad Ibrahim, and Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff.
All-boys charter school in Chatham County to close just months after opening
Tax money down the drain. Kids stranded. “the school had already spent most of an entire year’s worth of state funding by November, state officials said.”
Feds ignored ‘obvious red flags’ with $2M grant to Cincinnati charter school, letter says
The school, Cincinnati Classical Academy, provided inflated test scores in its application for the money and pretended to be much more diverse than it is, state lawmakers said in a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
KIPP charter schools to close three under-enrolled campuses, angering some parents
KIPP SoCal Public Schools, which operates 23 charter schools, will close three campuses, a setback for an organization that had grown steadily and is considered a leader in the field. The shutdowns, which have angered some parents and disappointed many, will take effect at the end of the current school year.
2,315 Charter Schools Failed And Closed In 11 Years
Although they have been around for more than 30 years, and although they are frequently touted as being superior to public schools, the U.S Department of Education reports that between 2010-11 and 2021-22, an 11-year period, 2,315 charter schools failed and closed in the U.S. That is a huge number of school closures in a short time frame. By any measure, it is hard to call such a phenomenon “successful.”
One New Orleans charter school closing, two more to be taken over by other charters
The three schools will join at least eight others that have closed or merged since 2018 due to declining enrollment and low academic performance scores.