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Indian River County School Board revokes charter school contract for failing to open
Somerset Academy Inc., a Miami-based nonprofit charter management organization, applied in 2018 for a five-year charter to open in the Pointe West community off State Road 60, west of the Indian River Mall, the following year. The school never materialized. Instead, the company continued to delay the school’s opening for three consecutive years, according to records.
Private and charter schools reject kids with special needs. That’s no ‘choice,’ Texas | Opinion
Many, if not most, private schools will not enroll special-education students and students with behavior problems. Most charter schools do not have special-education programs.
State accepts Girls Empowerment Middle School’s closure decision
Taack will be responsible for helping the school complete closing requirements and assisting families with transferring their students to new schools for next school year.
Preliminary hearing date set for criminal case against Epic Charter Schools co-founders, former CFO
The criminal case filed against Epic Charter Schools’ co-founders and former Chief Financial Officer is now set to move forward.
Epic Charter Schools founders David Chaney, Ben Harris and former Chief Financial Officer Josh Brock face an array of charges, including racketeering and embezzlement of state funds.
iLEAD Spring Meadows announces plans to close its doors at the end of the school year
Families received an email the school was closing. The Ohio Council of Community Schools will work with the school board and staff to ensure that all students are able to find a new school to attend for the 2023-2024 academic year.”
Proposed Sullivan Co. Charter school rejected by ICSB
School leader for RCA Derek Grant said the decision came down to enrollment and financials– much like the one Ball State made several months ago.
Seminole charter school faces probe over Sunshine law, records violations
The governing board of a Seminole County charter school, already facing turmoil over the ouster of its former principal, is under investigation for possible violations of state laws that require school business to be conducted in the public and school records to be publicly available, court records show.
Hoffman preschool to stay open as charter group closes final school
Cohen is the third school the charter group operated and lost due to failing state letter grades. Sylvanie Williams closed in 2018 as an F rated charter school and Crocker College Prep closed in 2021 with an F as well.
Ceiba charter school, city face lawsuit
“Heavy industrial zoning allows the largest use of hazardous situations,” she says. “Children’s school zoning allows the least. Placing a children’s school in an industrial zone defeats the purpose of having a zoning code in the first place.”
KIPP Memphis Academy Middle will close in June, more than 200 students to be moved
According to the notice, KIPP Memphis Academy Middle — located in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood — will close June 1.
A Charter School Board Member Says The Quiet Part Out Loud
“Let’s look at performance too with the kids that we keep.”
– Julie Ward, NVMI Board of Trustees
Harlem Hebrew, decade-old bilingual charter school in Manhattan, to shutter next month
Families learned in February that Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School would close in June. The decision leaves families scrambling for new schools with just weeks before the start of the summer break.
A Philly charter school manipulated its lottery to keep kids out, a top administrator says
The school executive said students from certain zip codes were eliminated, and others were kept out because they or their siblings exhibited academic or behavioral problems.
School District of Philadelphia investigates allegations that a Bridesburg charter school rigged its enrollment lottery
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the charter fixed its lottery to block students from 17 ZIP codes from enrolling — at the direction of former Franklin Towne CEO Joe Venditti, who resigned in February.
East Charlotte school has charter revoked
The Office of Charter Schools cited failing grades, staff turnover, and fiscal mismanagement as reasons to not renew the school’s ability to operate and receive state funding.