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Adding charter schools to Ontario would exacerbate student inequities
School choice already abounds in Ontario. No compelling evidence exists that adding choice in the form of charter schools will bolster student achievement. Adding charter schools would likely contribute both to segregating students by race and socio-economic status, and creating elite schools that cherry pick their students.
Providing Special Education Is Not Optional
NVMI’s management announces new plans for next year and says that they may ignore IEPs and may not offer classes for those with severe needs.
Anchorage School Board votes to eliminate Family Partnership homeschool charter
The Anchorage School District recommended the charter school transition into an alternative correspondence school after determining the school’s governing body was dysfunctional and accusing it of “repeated breaches of its charter and unacceptable behavior.”
State-Funded Charter School Says Native 1st-Grader’s Traditional Hair Violates Dress Code
UPDATED (3/31/2023) A North Carolina Native American family is fighting against a state-funded charter school’s demand that their first-grade boy gets his hair cut. The school system recently changed its dress and grooming code to define a boy wearing his hair in a bun or braids as “faddish.”
Michigan College Cuts Ties with Florida Charter School After Principal Resigns Over ‘David’ Sculpture
A Michigan college has ended its relationship with the
Florida charter school whose principal was pressured to
resign after parents complained that her Renaissance
art syllabus, which included a picture of Michelangelo’s
David, was inappropriate for sixth-graders.
OUSD is required to share space with charters, but community members are pushing back
“Making a move like this would basically be prioritizing charter school students over public school students and disenfranchising the very community that supports public schools,” said Heta Dave, the parent of one Claremont graduate and one prospective Claremont student. “To have two schools on the same campus with completely different curriculums, bell schedules is disruptive, and it will be damaging to a school that is one of the few OUSD middle schools that is currently thriving and doing well, and actually having to turn students away.”
Leon Schools super: Tallahassee Classical may be in violation of charter contract
Superintendent Rocky Hanna wrote in a letter last week
that Tallahassee Classical has only four board members
rather than the required five. This violation is grounds for
potential termination of the charter.
Financial concerns at Middleburg charter school could trigger probation, charter revocation
the financial audit from July 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022, showed past mistakes hadn’t been corrected and there were new deficiencies. Among the deficiencies cited: Misstatements regarding the fair market value of rental space and reclassification of revenues.Cash disbursements lacking proper documentation and incomplete cash receipts.Deposits exceeding federally insured limits and inaccurate posting of expenditures.
Parents in Southwest Baltimore make final plea to save small, decaying school
“They are afraid that if Steuart Hill Academy closes, drug addicts and homeless individuals will set up shop at the now empty building. Parents are afraid that their children will have to walk past their former school and make a much more dangerous walk to a building farther away,” argued Concepción.
Parents, Walton community saddened by decision to close town’s school
Some had tears in their eyes as they left the meeting Monday night, discouraged by the 4-3 decision impacting families whose children go to school in Walton, about seven miles east of Newton.
“My child, his fellow classmates, and especially these teachers behind me are not just numbers,” one Walton Rural Life Center parent told the board during the meeting.
Indiana charter schools might lose $1 law but gain referendum money
“With this flag of surrender, Republicans have accepted what public education advocates have known for years: a key component of the effort to redirect public education dollars to private pockets lacking public oversight has failed,” DeLaney said.
Indigenous Charter School in Denver Will Close at End of School Year
A Denver charter school that opened in 202 and focused on Indigenized curriculum will be closing its doors at the end of a school year due to low enrollment .“It was obviously a pretty tough decision,” said Nicholas Martinez, co-chair of the AIAD Board of Directors. “It really boils down to the fact that we didn’t have the enrollment to sustain the school.”
Farewell, Key Collegiate
Despite our best efforts to enroll our school, Key Collegiate Charter School will not meet the minimum required number of students to offer instruction for the 2022-23 school year.Families are also strongly encouraged to begin researching school options for next year.
Student protests, teacher concerns follow proposed restructure at Brooklyn charter school network
A Brooklyn charter school network’s plans to eliminate its team handling student behavioral and mental health challenges has riled its community, prompting a walkout by high schoolers earlier this week and a flurry of emails from the administration trying to dampen concerns.
EDITORIAL: Mandate honest promotion of charter schools
Perhaps the biggest difference is that charters operate under the direction of unelected boards, sometimes corporate boards. That translates into a far lesser degree of accountability because those board members don’t have to face the voters — the taxpayers who pay for the schools — every four years.