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Charter schools are by design a griftogenic environment, so operators are at their most creative in figuring out ways to benefit themselves:
| September 8, 2019 |
| The warnings about safety came for months. But regulators didn’t force Monument Academy to make changes. |
| Students at Monument Academy Public Charter School fought during the school day, routinely destroyed school property and simply left campus without permission. |
| Source: washingtonpost.com |
| August 29, 2019 | Coghill violated federal and state special education law, school district says | The Lens |
| The Gentilly Woods school must make up services to at least nine students. |
| Source: thelensnola.org |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Schools Tied to A3 Charter School Scandal Will All Close - Voice of San Diego |
| An online charter school empire whose leaders have been charged with enrolling fake students and misappropriating $80 million in public funds will be forced to close all of its schools across California. |
| Source: www.voiceofsandiego.org |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Jonetta rose barras: No justice for a 12-year-old DC girl who died by suicide |
| A few years before Stormiyah Denson-Jackson took her own life in her dormitory at SEED Public Charter School, Scott Pearson told the leader of FOCUS, a charter lobbying group, to ignore the mandates of the South Capitol Street Memorial Amendment Act |
| Source: thedcline.org |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Taught by substitute teachers, Michigan charter school students relied on YouTube |
| The Universal Academy in Detroit received notoriety in June when a video went viral of the co-salutatorians criticizing the value of their education. Concerns over schools’ reliance on subs remain. |
| Source: www.bridgemi.com |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Officials: Charter school served unsafe food to students |
| An audit showed Lincoln Memorial Academy was $500,000 in debt and had $780,000 in unpaid invoices. The School District of Manatee County says that’s why it revoked the Palmetto school’s charter in... |
| Source: www.fox13news.com |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Nashville school board votes to close Knowledge Academies charter school |
| Knowledge Academies faced scrutiny over its finances and other activities of its former CEO. |
| Source: www.tennessean.com |
| August 24, 2019 |
| KIPP co-founder Mike Feinberg sues charter school network for defamation |
| Mike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP, filed a defamation lawsuit against the national charter network Thursday in a bid to force the organization to turn over information to rebut the sexual abuse and harassment allegations that led to his firing. |
| Source: www.houstonchronicle.com |
| August 24, 2019 |
| Landlord seeks to evict Plato Academy charter school in Trinity over unpaid rent |
| The sides have been embroiled in legal disagreements since shortly after the death of Plato founder Steve Christopoulos. |
| Source: www.tampabay.com |
| August 24, 2019 |
| Tenn. substitute teacher who says she killed man is put in classroom with victim's sibling |
| A Tennessee substitute teacher who told police she killed a young man in a drug deal last month was then assigned to a classroom with the victim's sibling, according to the group that runs the charter school. |
| Source: cbsaustin.com |
| August 22, 2019 |
| New Study Reveals Privately-Run Charter Schools Under-Enroll Students with Disabilities | UTLA |
| “For years, we have heard anecdotally from parents, public and charter educators that the charter industry under-enrolls students with disabilities. For the first time, we can now quantify those stories using data from three of the three largest charter authorizers in the state. When charters choose |
| Source: www.utla.net |
| August 22, 2019 |
| GoLocalProv | Senator Calls for “Dismantlement " of Achievement First in RI, Cites Abuse at Schools |
| Democratic State Senator Sam Bell is calling for the dismantling of Achievement First’s management in Rhode Island. GoLocalProv.com reports. |
| Source: www.golocalprov.com |
| August 22, 2019 |
| Critics Call Inspire Charter School Practices 'Unethical' |
| Critics of Inspire Charter School accuse Inspire of using unethical practices to entice parents and students to leave their current charter schools and go to Inspire. |
| Source: www.nbcsandiego.com |
| August 20, 2019 |
| As they ask for more money, two Indiana virtual schools say they are all but closed |
| Despite painting a picture of schools that are all but shut down, an attorney for Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy asked for money to keep them open. |
| Source: www.chalkbeat.org |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Charter principal has long discipline file. There was no time to find someone else, district says |
| Ronnie King, the interim principal at Lincoln Memorial Academy charter school, failed to report an allegation of child abuse in 2017, and he recently made derogatory statements to a teacher at his previous school, according to records from his personnel file. |
| Source: bradenton.com |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Vaunted D.C. charter school sued again over teacher who sexually abused children |
| The family of a third student has filed a $30 million lawsuit against a respected D.C. charter school in federal court, alleging that school employees failed to protect the child from a teacher who sexually abused students. |
| Source: washingtonpost.com |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Amid tensions statewide, an embattled California charter school's quest ends badly |
| Perhaps few disputes have matched the intensity of the one centered on Promise Academy. The charter school group, backed by heavy philanthropic support, wanted to open a K-8 engineering- and science-focused school for low-income students in downtown San José, where high-tech firms, led by Google and Adobe, plan to add more than 25,000 jobs within the next decade. |
| Source: edsource.org |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Poor school districts are funding the state’s cyber charter schools, research shows. That wasn’t always the case |
| Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools "” taxpayer-funded, privately managed schools that offer their curriculum online "” enrolled close to 39,000 students in the 2018-19 academic year, according to a Capital-Star analysis of state Department of Education data. More likely than not, those students come from poorly funded districts where adults have low levels of education, recent research shows. |
| Source: penncapital-star.com |
| August 14, 2019 |
| California Charter School Vaccination Rate Dips to 57% |
| High vaccination rates can create herd immunity protection for infants |
| Source: www.precisionvaccinations.com |
| August 14, 2019 |
| Mother Files Suit Against L.A. Charter School Claiming Her Son Suffered Brain Damage in Bullying Incident | KTLA |
| The mother of a student at Animo Westside Charter Middle School is filing a lawsuit against the school, after she says he suffered brain damage following an act of bullying. Surveillance footage shows the boy being pushed and held against a wall by another student. |
| Source: ktla.com |
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