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A growing Pee Dee public charter school has been awarded a federal grant to help it add a new facility to its campus – but it might not be able to use the money.
Read MoreCommunity groups, state lawmakers, parents and education unions today called on the Rochester City School District’s state-appointed monitor Dr. Shelley Jallow to either drop her second job working for a charter school management organization, as reported by the Democrat & Chronicle, or leave her position as monitor.
Read MoreThe Lake Country Classical Academy, an independent charter school authorized by the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College in northern Wisconsin, opened in September in the Milwaukee suburb of Oconomowoc, about a five-hour drive south on Interstate 94 from Hayward, where the college is located — about as far away from Ojibwe land and tribal members as you can get without leaving Wisconsin.
Read MoreA Memphis school could lose its charter under Shelby County Schools, after three school leaders were indicted on charges of stealing $400,000 for personal use.
Read MoreNazareth’s mounting costs came as Pennsylvania experienced a statewide exodus of students to cyber charter schools. More than 22,000 students left their home school districts for cyber charter schools at the start of the 2020-21 school year, “taking with them at least $335 million dollars in funding,” according to Pennsylvania’s 2021 State of Education Report.
Read MoreEpic Charter Schools’ new leaders said Friday that they are assisting multiple agencies “investigating some very serious crimes” during the years the state’s largest charter school system was controlled by its two now-ousted co-founders and for-profit managers
Read MoreKanawha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Bailey, in her ruling, cited the West Virginia Constitution, which asserts that “no independent free school district or organization shall hereafter be created,” unless the school districts or voters consent to its creation.
Read MoreThe Charter School, which opened in 1998 and teaches from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, has weathered four previous renewals. But this time, the Red Bank Board of Education has passed a resolution asking the New Jersey Department of Education to deny the Charter School’s renewal and the Borough Council passed a resolution supporting the Board of Education’s request.
Read MoreBishop Sycamore, the alleged Ohio charter school that raised concerns when the football program was blown out by IMG Academy in an ESPN showcase earlier this year, was determined to be a “scam.”
The Ohio Department of Education released its report about its investigation into Bishop Sycamore on Friday that the so-called online charter school was in fact a “scam” and “not a school.”
Read MoreCiting “grossly negligent” oversight of Torchlight Academy’s exceptional children program, the State Board of Education on Thursday placed the Raleigh charter school on Level 3 governance probationary status, which gives it 10 days to correct problems or risk further sanctions such as charter revocation.
Read MoreThe former director of a for-profit charter school organization was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution after pleading guilty to embezzling millions of dollars and tax evasion, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Read MoreDr. Martin Luther King Charter School, which was facing a possible non-renewal of its operating agreement with the Orleans Parish School Board, will remain open, NOLA Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis announced at Thursday night’s Orleans Parish School Board meeting.
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