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A handful of corrupt operators capitalized on weaknesses in the authorizing and accountability system.
Read MoreFraud is suspected in the second audit of Highlands Community Charter School. ABC10 investigated the school and as a result a new audit investigation has been opened.
Read MoreInspire, a home school charter network, for years lacked records to justify its claims for state funding. The Inspire network, which included two schools authorized out of San Diego County, also overreported student attendance. Inspire’s lapses resulted in part from some of the same financial practices and weaknesses in oversight that have allowed other California charter school operators to get more taxpayer money.
Read MoreThe task force was formed as a result of a 2019 San Diego case, which found 11 people defrauded the state of $400 million.
Read MoreThe task force was ordered by San Diego Superior Court Judge Robert Longstreth in September as part of the years-long A3 charter school case, which is the largest case of charter school fraud prosecuted in California in recent years.
Read MoreAn audit report has revealed potential misuse of $1.06 million in public funds at Ezequiel Tafoya Alvarado Academy, a charter school in Madera, California.The report alleges various instances of misappropriation, including $38,000 spent to finance thehigher education expenses and the purchase of two Ford F-150 Raptors for the sons of ex-executive director Nicolas Retana, costing $80,000.
Read MoreIn 2007, Tad Honeycutt and Charles Steven Cox were charged with misappropriating $5.5 million in charter school funds
Read MoreA full accounting of the alleged fraud by Nicholas Retana, former Executive Director of the ETAA Charter School, in the amount of $1,062,590.49, is impossible to report in a single issue of the Tribune.
Read MoreAn “Extraordinary Audit” conducted by an educational management firm (FCMAT) has revealed suspected fraud at Ezequiel Tafoya Alvarado Academy, a Madera County charter school authorized by Madera Unified School District. (Every charter school in California must be sponsored by a school district).
Read MoreCalifornia State Controller Malia Cohen has agreed to chair a task force to establish audit criteria and best practices to detect and curtail charter school fraud following a case that cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
Read MoreDespite such an unprecedented theft, not a single person involved in the A3 case will spend a day behind bars. McManus and Schrock were both sentenced to four years – but both have already been in ankle monitors, on home confinement. They both will get credit for time served. Several other key players had their felonies reduced to misdemeanors and two defendants essentially had their charges dropped for cooperating in the investigation.
Read MoreAn additional $18.8 million has been paid to San Diego County as restitution for the statewide A3 charter school scam in which the state was defrauded of hundreds of millions of school dollars, the San Diego County District Attorney announced Wednesday.
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