#ANOTHERDAYANOTHERCHARTERSCHOOLSCANDAL
Wenham all-girls prep school closes its doors amid low enrollment
The Academy at Penguin Hall announced its immediate closure on June 13, citing declining enrollment and low funding.
One St. Cloud charter school closes, another takes over its building and absorbs many staff, students
STRIDE Academy will move grades 5-8 to the nearby site of former Athlos, which closed this year.
Tiny Indiana District With Online School Worth Millions Ordered To Close
Legislators blame poor test scores while district says the fight is really over big e-school money.
Philadelphia Board of Education indicates it will not renew 2 charter schools
Board members said they were concerned about the academic performance of both schools, which have test scores far below the district average and have not shown significant improvement in recent years.
Explore Academy shuts high school with little notice
On Friday, June 20, the board voted unanimously to shutter the high school but keep grades kindergarten through 8th grade running. The immediate closure will cancel the upcoming school year that was due to start on July 28. “We are crushed,” Janelle Vasquez, mother of one student, said.
Pinellas charter school Plato Academy closes Largo site
Citing difficulties securing a new lease on its Largo site since 2010, Plato Academy has shut down the location that served 305 children this year.
Sacramento charter school got $180 million it wasn’t eligible for, audit finds
A state audit found that a Sacramento area charter school received more than $180 million in funding it was not eligible for, engaged in wasteful spending, and assigned teachers to classes they did not have the credentials to teach.
Elite charter schools CEO resigns.
Records show just-departed CEO & founder built a wealthy lifestyle while running the small charter school
Contracts for 2 River Valley charter schools expire June 30
The Department announced at a charter panel meeting on Thursday that four district conversion and two open-enrollment charter schools have either closed, transferred to another charter system or were not renewed for the 2025-26 school year.
Public education is not for sale: Alaskans must reject the voucher Trojan horse
Who would benefit? It became clear to me then that vouchers would syphon resources from public schools, and leave students who lacked the privilege of “choice” behind — thereby deepening divides between the haves and the have nots.
Out-of-control voucher expenses cited as major cause of state education budget shortfall
The Arizona Department of Education sent a letter to the schools telling them to plan for June without 40 percent of the funding they usually receive. This won’t change unless lawmakers pass a state budget for fiscal year 2025-26 or pass a supplemental spending bill. The legislature has until July 1 to pass a budget.
Local charter school closing
According to a legal notice received by The Advertiser-Tribune from Lynette Cameron, a financial associate at the North Central Ohio Educational Services Center, “North Central Academy has ceased operations and is liquidating a wide variety of assets by online auction.”
Philadelphia charter school announces it will stop operating next year
The school’s CEO, Penny Nixon, said in a statement Wednesday that the decision was the result of declining enrollment. The school is authorized to enroll 425 students but has enrolled fewer than half that number for the past three years.
Epic Charter Schools under investigation by Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board
“As its authorizer, we have a duty to monitor and provide oversight of the school to ensure it has fiscal integrity and that it is in compliance with the terms of its charter contract with the Statewide Charter Schools Board,” read part of the statement.
What’s next for Chavez-Huerta Preparatory Academy parents and students after charter school closing its doors
“The school closure follows years of improper fiscal management and financial instability at the charter school.