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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.
Audit shows hundreds of thousands of dollars owed by defunct Osceola County charter school
The auditors wrote, “There were twenty-four (24) personal reimbursement transactions totaling $27,739.29 during the 2021- 2022 fiscal year. It is unusual for reimbursements to be paid directly to an individual who is a contracted vendor for the School.”
Newton school board votes to close Walton Rural Life Center
PTO member said closing the charter school would be devastating for families and the community.
Waite: Let’s stop pretending charter schools are the answer
That’s how it is with charter schools. Many people seem to continually call their number, but as of yet, they haven’t provided any real answer.
Philly-area urban district school superintendents call for charter reform, decry unfunded mandates
Five Philadelphia-area superintendents spoke at Upper Darby High School as part of the caucus of Pennsylvania League of Urban Schools press conference, to call attention to the need for charter reform and funding inequities that are dramatically impacting children who attend urban schools.