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Enterprise, Westminster charter schools have two years to improve
Buffalo Public Schools and two charter schools the district wanted to close last year have reached an agreement that will keep them open at least until 2024.
Durango School District 9-R board rejects charter school’s request for early state review
Ascent Classical Academies, the charter school business seeking to open a school in the Durango area, wanted to bypass the school district’s local chartering authority to pursue a more expeditious approval process through the state. A state statutory period allows charter schools to apply between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1.
Another New Orleans charter school will close; declining enrollment cited at IDEA Oscar Dunn
IDEA Oscar Dunn charter school, which opened in New Orleans less than three years ago, will close at the end of the 2021-2022 school year in May amid declining student enrollment.
The Charter School Experiment: A case for action
After spending six billion dollars of the taxpayer’s money to become the only all-Charter system in the state, a staggering 73 percent of our children are not functioning at grade level compared to 67 percent in 2005, “This 15-year flawed experiment has yielded no best practices to improve student and school performance, no state protocol for Charter Law compliance, and no student performance improvement. It has, however, yielded other devastating consequences for our children and community,” the legislator says.
Former Three Rivers principal describes chaos at charter school, which state plans to close
Don McQueen, operator of Three Rivers Academy, allegedly padded enrollment numbers, paid families so students would attend class, and took other extreme measures to ensure state per-pupil funds kept flowing to the troubled charter school in Bertie County.
The charter school and voucher wars continue: A tale of two cities, or maybe three
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,” Charles Dickens famously wrote. But if a latter-day Dickens were writing today, the tale might be about foolishness and not wisdom in the misuse of public funds. And the setting would not be two, but three cities, state capitals whose names, interestingly enough, all begin with the letter C.
Another Charter Funding Report Comes up Short, Says NEPC Review
Report purporting to compare funding for charter and public district schools runs afoul of several basics of school finance research.
Nate Monroe: Millions of school sales tax dollars in Duval County are pouring into a black hole — charters
Millions of dollars collected from a half-penny sales tax in Jacksonville are going to a decentralized group of charter schools across the city, making it far more difficult to track how that money is being spent and to determine whether it’s being used to improve school infrastructure for every Duval County student.
Metro Nashville school board denies Knowledge Middle School’s charter renewal
The charter review team found enrollment remains unstable, the school consistently does not meet its debt obligations and does not have a plan for boosting enrollment or how to address student attribution issues, according to district documents and the school only partially met academic standards for renewal.
Ex-White House adviser pleads guilty in $218,000 school scam
The founder of a national charter school network pleaded guilty Friday to a charge alleging he stole over $200,000 from the network.
Denver charter focused on inclusion for students with disabilities to close
The board of directors of REACH Charter School voted last month to close the school after learning that Denver Public Schools staff was going to recommend the school board not renew its charter with REACH — which would have been the first such recommendation in nearly a decade. The REACH board decided to surrender its charter instead.
SCS board revokes Memphis Academy of Health Sciences charter
Between 2015 and 2019, Johnson, along with fellow administrators Robert Williams and Michael Jones allegedly used school money for trips to Las Vegas, a hot tub, seafood, NBA tickets, and auto repair, among other expenses.
Upstate charter schools to shut down
The schools have survived due to the money they received from federal Covid-19 grants. The Resolution says the schools would have lost around $1.5 million since 2017 without the help of that money. “We’re just concerned that they didn’t reach out and tell the parents any of this,” said Sara Herrell, who’s son goes to NEXT High School. “They just kind of threw it on us at the last minute and the kids are the ones that are having to suffer for it.“
Several accused in Indiana school fraud want suit dismissed
The defendants argued before a Hamilton County judge this past week that the lawsuit was not specific enough about how they violated state law and that they should not be personally liable,Two defendants also asked the court to delay the lawsuit because they say they may be under an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
Award-winning teacher at Manhattan charter school is accused of grooming and sexually abusing a student for years starting when she was in fourth grade
A celebrated teacher at a Manhattan charter school was arrested for allegedly grooming and sexually assaulting a fourth grade student for several years. Parents were informed on Thursday that Sanchez had been fired, as well as the principal Danny Swersky, for his handling of the case.
Swersky was terminated soon after Sanchez’s arrest for failing ‘to follow KIPP NYC’s procedures or meet KIPP NYC’s expectations in how he handled this matter,’ said superintendent Jim Manly.