#ANOTHERDAYANOTHERCHARTERSCHOOLSCANDAL
A Lowcountry Charter School’s charter revocation is moving forward after a new step in the legal battle with the district that oversees it.
A Lowcountry Charter School’s charter revocation is moving forward after a new step in the legal battle with the district that oversees it.
Charter Schools Fail And Close Every Week
Nonstop disinformation from charter school promoters that charter schools are amazing and successful is belied by the failure and closure of charter schools every week.
St. Louis charter school founders ‘double-dipped’ from public school tax dollars
State officials are looking into the financial dealings of Kairos Academies charter school, where three current and former executives received nearly $600,000 in back pay dating to several years before the school opened in 2019.
Houston Chronicle: Lax charter school laws allow splashy land buys, profits for leaders
In other cases, charter schools collected valuable real estate at great cost to taxpayers but with a tenuous connection to student learning.
Court ruling will block state approval of Mayacamas charter school in Napa
Trustees criticized what they called petitioners’ too-rosy financial and enrollment predictions, as well as skimpy arrangements for teaching English learners and special-needs children — and argued the school would offer little that is not already offered at existing schools.
SCOTUS Lets Stand Decision Ensuring ‘Publicly Funded Charter Schools Are Not Above the Law’
“Girls at public charter schools have the same constitutional rights as their peers at other public schools—including the freedom to wear pants,” said the ACLU Women’s Rights Project director.
Former central Pa. school principal sentenced in tuition fraud case
Leonard Hart, 50, the former head of Lincoln Charter School
in York, was charged in August of 2022 after federal
prosecutors said he stole funds by faking that he was
enrolled in university courses and then seeking
reimbursement from his federally-funded school.
2 North Las Vegas charter schools receive notices of concern from state board
The vote comes after the Nevada State Public Charter
School Authority’s board reviewed the annual financial audits
from both schools and found that they failed to meet
standards in some areas by a “significant margin.”
A Toxic Mess in the Valley: The North Valley Military Institute (NVMI)
With this background, let’s cut to the chase. Under the catchy name of the North Valley Military Institute (NVMI), there is a charter school so toxic that even the LAUSD Board couldn’t take it anymore and declined to give them an OK.
Math Civics and Sciences bars student who was shot from graduation
Math Civics and Sciences bars student who was
shot from graduation
More Trouble For Embattled South Carolina Charter School District
The out-of-nowhere shutdown of the Midlands Arts Conservatory in downtown Columbia took parents and students completely by surprise – and the secretive manner in which it unfolded behind closed doors rightfully has both school and district officials facing fresh scrutiny.
IDEA Public Schools may sell boutique hotel in Los Fresnos
According to a statement released by IDEA, former executives purchased the property without board approval.
Principal reacts to local charter school’s unexpected closure
Many parents of former students from Midlands Arts Conservatory are scrambling to find new schools for their children to attend this upcoming school year and many staff members are struggling to find new jobs calling the school’s closure unexpected and a shock.
North Carolina teacher’s civil rights suit alleges he was fired over teaching of novel about racial profiling during Black History Month
A Black North Carolina teacher has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a Charlotte charter school, alleging he was fired after some White parents opposed his teaching of a novel about a Black teen struggling with “racial injustice” during Black History Month.
As Charter School Prepares To Open Jefferson Park Campus, NW Side Public School Advocates Push Back
Parents, public education advocates and numerous community groups say they don’t want a Northwest Side charter school to expand into the closed Our Lady of Victory Catholic school building in the fall.