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This online charter network pays tens of millions of public dollars to one for-profit company. Teachers are pushing to learn what it’s paying for.
A California network of online charter schools that pays tens of millions of public dollars a year to one for-profit company is under pressure from its teachers union to explain exactly how that money is being spent.
Court documents: OK AG concerned Epic co-founders still have access to taxpayer dollars
Oklahoma State Auditor, Cindy Byrd previously told KFOR that over the years the complicated financial scheme cost taxpayers more than $22 million dollars, following an October 2020 investigative audit into Epic Charter Schools. More than a year after the trio’s arrest and the State Attorney General has brought into question whether the co-founders still have access to the money.
Oklahoma AG worries Epic Charter Schools founders still have taxpayer money
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office is going after Epic Charter Schools’ student funds, which apparently are still in the possession of the school founders who are facing criminal charges in a massive racketeering and embezzlement case.
Letters: Duval public schools, not charters, should keep all funds from sales surtax
Charter schools appear to be using these funds to build new school facilities when taxpayers wanted the money to renovate existing neighborhood school buildings.
The governor’s voucher ‘scam’: $10,500 in taxpayer subsidies without accountability
Welcome to accountability at so called public charter schools in Texas, where the only thing public about the schools is the taxpayer money that funds them. Otherwise, what happens mostly happens behind closed doors. The public and media are met, metaphorically, by a Keep Out sign.
24 Nevada charter schools are underperforming
Two dozen charter schools have been flagged as academically underperforming after the state issued its first ratings since the onset of the pandemic.
Receiver accuses Florence charter school of illegally using funds despite court-ordered shutdown
A superintendent in the Pee Dee is asking the 12th Circuit Solicitor to investigate a school that he says is illegally distributing taxpayer dollars.The Palmetto Youth Academy has changed its name to Palmetto Promise and is still running despite being court-ordered to shut down. A sign that previously said Palmetto Youth Academy is now blank, but a News13 reporter saw students outside Monday in uniforms who appeared to be at recess.
6-year-old’s hands duct taped by teacher’s aide at charter school
A six-year-old’s hands were allegedly duct taped by a teacher’s aide at a Friendship Public Charter School. A D.C. mother told FOX 5 that duct tape was used to bind her son’s hands by a teacher’s aide who was allegedly trying to stop the first-grader from drumming on the desk to make music.
Tulsa Charter School Faces Accusations Of Racism, Bullying
One of the parents behind the claims includes Shari Alspach, who said her son, Kayden Matthews, was subjected to racist language and bullying at Tulsa Honor Academy. The abuse got so bad that she unrolled her son earlier this week.
After private vote, charter school’s future is still up in the air
The board of trustees of the Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School held a private vote during an executive session at its meeting on Thursday evening and decided to close the school. It’s a decision that should be accepted as final, according to the charter school’s attorney. Thursday evening’s vote could conflict with the state’s Sunshine Act, which states the vote must be held in public. It’s unclear if the vote will be challenged.
Religious Charter Schools Undermine the Foundations of Public Education
A church-run charter school is on track to open in Oklahoma — publicly funded but run by the archdiocese. The arrival of religious charter schools is one more piece of evidence that public charter schools are not so public after all.
Ongoing confusion at a Philly charter school set to close gives students a lesson in ‘Do as I say, not as I do’
Two weeks after the shocking announcement that Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School would be closing, students continue to seek answers.
Should a public school be a vanity project? MCS Charter shutdown raises concerning questions | Opinion
News of the imminent closure of a Philadelphia charter school raises the question of what a public school is: a community effort to educate and care for children where all stakeholders have a voice or the vanity project of one person?
Pittsboro charter school ordered closed
The Review Board revoked the charter for the new School of the Arts for Boys Academy in Pittsboro due to lack of enrollment.
Former charter school still operational, spending taxpayer dollars
Palmetto Youth Academy has continued to operate and spend taxpayer dollars after its charter was revoked and a court ordered it to close.