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How Hillsdale College-affiliated charter schools spread
The American Legacy Academy (ALA) was recently approved to open in the Weld RE-4 School District in Colorado. According to ALA’s website, the charter school will offer a back-to-basics, classical education as a Hillsdale College curriculum school. The approval of the charter school is a victory for local culture warriors who have stormed board meetings with grievances over masks and critical race theory.
Your View: Pa. misses another chance for much-needed charter school reform
Every state budget includes negotiated agreements on a variety of policy issues. Yet, despite bipartisan calls for comprehensive charter school reform, once again the Pennsylvania General Assembly has put this year’s budget to bed without any significant reforms to the charter school law, widely recognized as one of the worst in the country.
No excuses’ charter school magnate, Obama advisor sentenced for stealing $218K from NYC school he founded
An education advisor under former President Barack Obama and the founder of a network of hyper-punitive New York City charter schools was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing more than $218,000 from school accounts, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Putnam charter school shutting down after nine years
School officials this week announced the impending closure of Putnam Edge High School, seen here Thursday, July 28, 2022 in Palatka. Approximately 70 students at the area charter school have been told this week they must continue their education elsewhere.
Deadline looms for Marine on St. Croix charter school meant to replace closed elementary
Principal Kim Kokx, who started her job on July 1, said 29 students have enrolled in Marine Village School, but only 14 had submitted official registration forms as of Wednesday afternoon. She and other school officials have been calling, texting and emailing families to remind them of the deadline, she said.
Hillsdale-affiliated charter school asks state commission to overrule local school boards
A controversial charter school network embraced by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will attempt an end-run around local school boards that overwhelmingly rejected their applications.
Hillsdale College’s American Classical Academy filed an appeal Monday with the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission, asking the board to overrule the denial by the Jackson-Madison County Board of Education. Similar appeals are expected to be filed for charter schools in Rutherford County and Clarksville-Montgomery County.
Montgomery County school board rejects proposal for Gaithersburg charter school
Although M.E.C.C.A. received a $900,000 start-up grant from the Maryland State Department of Education, board members still worried that the group might not secure the funding needed to acquire and renovate a building.
Additionally, the board questioned whether there was a need for a business-focused school since MCPS already offers a few business and finance-specific programs at the high school level.
Superintendents call for charter school reform
Pennsylvania school districts are spending more than $2.6 billion in taxpayer money on mandatory payments to cyber and brick-and-mortar charter schools, according to the PSBA.
Who will run two Philly charter schools? With a month to go before school, there are no answers yet.
At a chaotic meeting Wednesday night, the board declined to fully answer public questions about who will manage the schools, whether the schools’ principals will remain, when a new health insurance policy for employees will be in place, and how a previously promised tuition-assistance program for employees will run.
State shutdown of Newark charter school leaves families in financial lurch
The recent state closure of University Heights Charter School, a network of three Newark schools that enrolled about 600 students, upended short- and long-term plans for hundreds of families.
Superintendent: Charter could close one Dothan school
Dothan could lose one public school if a church receives approval of its charter school plans, the city’s superintendent predicts.
“That (approval) would create a negative impact on the (Dothan) public school system,” Dr. Dennis Coe told News 4 on Tuesday.
Greater Beulah Baptist Church has applied for a charter permit and plans to outline its polarizing proposal during a public hearing tonight (Wednesday).
Opinion: TEA’s addiction to charter schools
Charter school chains serve 7% of Texas students yet take up 15% of Texas’ education budget. The number of charters in Texas has nearly doubled over the past decade, putting a strain on the state budget and wreaking fiscal havoc with education budgets in districts like Houston Independent School District. Most of this vast growth has occurred without the knowledge or consent of Texas voters.
Lafayette Charter School to close its doors
The Lafayette Public Charter School is announcing its permanent closing as a result of ongoing staffing issues. The school, located in Lafayette, Minnesota, has cancelled the opening of its 2022-23 school year, after it was unable to hire the necessary complement of teachers for the upcoming year.
Rutherford County school board rejects Hillsdale charter school pushed by Tennessee governor
The controversial charter school network invited by Gov. Bill Lee to Tennessee ran into trouble Monday night before the Rutherford County school board.
The Board of Education voted 6-1 to reject the application by American Classical Academy to open one of its privately operated charter schools in the Murfreesboro area.
Einstein charter school graduation problems appear similar to 2019 Kennedy HS scandal
The problems that recently led to more than 50 percent of seniors at Einstein Charter Group’s Sarah T. Reed High School being ineligible for diplomas, even as they walked at their May graduation ceremony, appear in many cases to mirror those that left students in a similar predicament three years ago — a highly publicized scandal that led to a series of reforms at the NOLA Public Schools district.