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02/22/2022

Easton charter school is losing its 5th principal in less than 5 years

In less than five years, the Easton Arts Academy Elementary Charter School has run through five principals.

02/22/2022

IPS likely to close Joyce Kilmer School 69 after losing innovation charter partner

Indianapolis Public Schools will likely close Joyce Kilmer School 69 on the eastside after losing the charter partner tasked with turning around the school.

Kindezi Academy, the charter operator that revamped the school in 2016, announced Friday that it would end its partnership with IPS and shut down operations in June due to low student outcomes and facility issues.

02/21/2022

Lake Wales High School principal hires labor attorney to fight what she calls ‘systemic harassment’

Lake Wales High School Principal Donna Dunson has retained a labor attorney, claiming she has endured what she characterizes as “the systemic harassment that has been in play for over a year,” by the Lake Wales Charter School System Board.

02/18/2022

Most Nevada charter school students administered by one Florida company

Lawmakers on the interim legislative committee on education received an informational presentation on Wednesday about “education management organizations,” or EMOs — the private companies that receive millions of dollars in public funds each year but often go unscrutinized by the public and legislators alike.

02/18/2022

Kindezi Academy, charter school and IPS partner, to close at end of the school year

Families of Kindezi Academy students received some difficult news Friday afternoon: After six years, the school is closing.

02/17/2022

Bethlehem charter school pushes back against claims the administration has been ignoring reports of sexual assault and discrimination

Students at a Bethlehem charter school say the administration has been ignoring reports of sexual assault and discrimination.

02/16/2022

How Big Businesses Are Colonizing the Classroom

Parents say their children’s education suffers when career and technical education programs are tailored to the needs of corporations.

02/15/2022

Tennessee bill speeding up application process for charter schools has school board member worried

House Bill 2833 and Senate Bill 2168 are identical bills that would speed up the application process for charter schools. It would allow applicants to go directly to the state Public Charter School Commission for approval, rather than the current method of approval by local school boards.

02/14/2022

Not all charter schools bus kids or provide free and reduced-price meals

At least 11 of Idaho’s brick-and-mortar public charter schools don’t bus their students to school, an EdNews analysis found, and at least 22 don’t participate in the federal free and reduced-price meals program for their most impoverished students.
The lack of services impacts the schools’ ability to diversify their student populations.

02/14/2022

Upset over a new charter school in Baker, city leaders petition public, consider lawsuit

They especially object to state leaders’ reliance on a law that allows charter applicants to bypass local school districts if those districts have D or F academic letter grades. The public schools in Baker, located just north of Baton Rouge, have a D.

02/11/2022

Charter commission orders online school to close permanently

An online school that serves some 500 K-12 students will have to close for good this summer.

02/11/2022

Charter commission orders online school to close permanently

An online school that serves some 500 K-12 students will have to close for good this summer.

The Idaho Public Charter School Commission voted unanimously Friday to not renew Another Choice Virtual Charter School’s performance certificate, which means the school must start the process of closing its doors by June 30, 2022.

02/09/2022

Is it time to end the all-charter school experiment in New Orleans?

Experiments in education are written into Louisiana state law to allow for charter schools, and innovative ways to improve education. But a 2021 Legislative audit and 2016 Stanford study show charters in New Orleans have failed to prove those experiments work.

02/06/2022

Cyber charter school funding must change

An inequitable and blatantly unfair funding formula for cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania has inflated the amount of money they receive — at the expense of other public schools.

02/06/2022

Charter school proposal roils South Coast

An increasingly acrimonious debate over a proposed grade 6-12 charter school serving students in New Bedford and Fall River. In recent days, opponents have taken the fight to the streets, picketing a local bank whose president was slated to serve on the charter school board of directors and showing up unannounced at the law office of an attorney who had submitted a letter to the state education department in support of the charter application.