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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.
A look at what charter schools have closed in Marion County
Here’s a list of Marion County charter schools that have closed along with the reason why, according to the charter authorizers’ websites, accountability reports or records requests. The Indiana Charter School Board is referred to as ICSB in the chart below.
A feature of the system not a bug’: One third of Indy charter schools close
Holley had to scramble to find a new school for her son, Jhace Moore, a second grader who had attended the HIM by HER Collegiate School for the Arts since it opened three years ago. The Martindale-Brightwood school closed suddenly in January, citing low enrollment that led to financial woes. The closure left Jhace and about 200 other students in the lurch.
Charter school and voucher bills are an assault on traditional public schools | Opinion
The expansion of vouchers would increase the program’s most striking deficiencies: Using tax dollars to fund private schools without setting standards for what’s taught or providing adequate measurements of how well students are learning.
ISAAC charter school drops accreditation bid after questions raised about work environment
Just days earlier, NEASC signaled that it would terminate the school’s application after school leaders failed to cooperate with an investigation into complaints of a toxic work environment.