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Michigan school board votes to seek financial transparency from charter schools
At a meeting Tuesday, the board voted 5-1, along party lines, to ask the Legislature to require every charter management organization to post audit reports of its use of public funds, including information related to salaries, benefits, and contracts.
SAISD revokes several charter programs as part of annual review
Six in-district charter programs in the San Antonio Independent School District were terminated following a unanimous vote at Tuesday’s board of trustees meeting.
The changes take effect July 1 and will affect students in the 2023-24 school year. Trustees will discuss three other programs recommended for probationary renewals at a January board meeting.
Abrupt notice of Rocklin charter school closure leaves families wondering where they’ll go
The school announced in an afternoon email that it’s shutting down – effective at the end of the school day on Dec. 15. The abrupt closure plans leave the families of more than 200 students wondering where to turn on such short notice.
New Data Reveals That Success Academy Attrition Is Worse Than Previously Reported
Success Academy had 315 Kindergarteners in 2008. The graduating class of 2021 had 110 students. Without this new data, it would seem that their persistence rate is about 35%. But this new data I received shows that only 69 of the graduating class had started with the school as kindergarteners. So a more accurate estimate is 69/315=22% which is a little lower than the 25% I had originally estimated.
Barred from teaching in Florida, an instructor was hired by two New Orleans schools
A woman barred from teaching in Florida because she had an inappropriate relationship with a student was hired by two New Orleans charter schools this year, exposing a flaw in the hiring system at a time when many schools have been scrambling to fill empty positions amid a national teacher shortage.
KIPP Columbus charter schools decline to recognize the union the staff is organizing
KIPP Columbus charter schools administration declined to voluntarily recognize KIPP Columbus Alliance for Charter Teachers and Staff (KIPP Columbus ACTS) — the union that teachers, social workers, paraprofessionals, intervention specialists and student life coordinators from KIPP’s primary, elementary, middle and high school on the Northeast Side are trying to organize, according to the Ohio Federation of Teachers.
Judge allows Muskegon Heights School District to remove members of charter school board
A preliminary injunction seeking to block Muskegon Heights School District from making changes to the board of the charter school it authorizes was denied Wednesday by a Muskegon County judge.
13 New Orleans schools tried to renew their charters. One failed.
ENCORE Academy will close at the end of the current academic year, after New Orleans public school officials decided not to renew the charter for the 11-year-old, art-based school in the 7th Ward.
State targets more than 100 schools statewide, including Brighton charter, as worst-performing
A charter school in Livingston County was named among the worst-performing schools in the state and targeted for aid from the Michigan Department of Education.
Kansas City charter school teacher under investigation for alleged racial slur
A University Academy high school teacher is on administrative leave pending an investigation with the school.
The teacher is accused of using the N-word in front of students and it was caught on camera two weeks ago.
MSCS recommends revoking charters for seven district schools; 3 of which are ‘priority schools’ two years in a row
Seven Memphis-Shelby County Schools are currently recommended to have their charters revoked after the Tennessee Department of Education designated them “priority schools.”
“Priority schools” are in the bottom 5% of schools across Tennessee for academic performance.
How Many More Years of a Failed Reform Must Orleans Parish Endure?
It has been said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Well, NOLA Public Schools must be certifiably insane; because here we are — 17 years deep into a so-called education reform movement; and this year’s recently released school performance scores continue to reveal the what we have long known — this reform was and is a farce and a failure.
WATCH: Investigation into four administrators at southern Colorado charter school
Parents of students at Liberty Tree Academy received letters from the school in recent weeks. They say the school’s appointed board is investigating claims of unchecked nepotism, favoritism and an unprofessional and hostile work environment, backed by a dozen people.
Urban Prep loses charter agreement for last Chicago campus
After months of controversy surrounding Urban Prep Academy, the Illinois board of education ended the charter school’s agreement for its downtown campus Thursday, citing enrollment declines.
The move marks the latest blow to the nationally recognized charter network that specializes in serving Black boys on Chicago’s South and West Sides.
What you don’t know about the UW System’s new charter schools should worry you
The UW System’s Office of Educational Opportunity (OEO), created by the Wisconsin Legislature in 2015, is well on its way to overseeing more K-12 schools than the superintendents of most of Wisconsin’s 423 school districts.
Currently, the OEO, the UW System’s charter school authorizer, lists 10 independent charter schools it has authorized on its website. Three more schools haven’t opened yet but have signed contracts with the office. With 13 schools, the OEO has enough schools under its umbrella to be one of Wisconsin’s 20 largest school districts. Yet there is not much publicly available information about how the office is choosing to approve new charters, or even which schools it has already approved.