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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:
| April 7, 2019 |
| Chicago Charter School For Girls Is Closing |
| Young Women’s Leadership Charter School is slated to close in June after 20 years due to low enrollment and greater competition. |
| Source: www.wbez.org |
| April 6, 2019 |
| Charter school superintendent, IT employee charged with embezzlement |
| The head of a Houston-area charter school and another school employee have been indicted on federal embezzlement charges, accused of siphoning more than $250,000 from the school for themselves and using some of the money to buy a car and condominium. |
| Source: www.chron.com |
| April 5, 2019 |
| New federal study: Charter middle schools didn’t boost college enrollment or graduation |
| A new U.S. Department of Education study finds that attending a charter middle school does not make a student more likely to attend or graduate college. |
| Source: www.ajc.com |
| April 5, 2019 |
| Promesa: Worst Charter Chain or Just the Tip of the Iceberg? |
| In December 2018 the New York Times published an expose on Southwest Key. The Texas company is notorious for operating inhumane border shelters for incarcerated migrants hoping to secure refugee st... |
| Source: www.dailykos.com |
| April 5, 2019 |
| NC charter school teacher taped student’s mouth |
| A middle school teacher at Southern Wake Academy put masking tape over a student’s mouth a month ago. The charter school says the teacher is still employed and was put on a disciplinary action plan for the rest of the school year. |
| Source: www.newsobserver.com |
| April 4, 2019 |
| Additional money scammed from Caddo charter school is recovered |
| Since January, investigators have tracked and retrieved thousands as investigation continues. |
| Source: www.shreveporttimes.com |
| April 3, 2019 |
| Financial ties between HISD charter, founder draw scrutiny before renewal vote |
| A trio of intertwined charter school networks operating within Houston ISD have paid or lent at least $17 million during the last five years to a company owned by their highest-ranking employee... |
| Source: www.houstonchronicle.com |
| April 3, 2019 |
| Federal study finds charter schools didn't help students in college degrees |
| The results are a disappointing data point for charter advocates who hoped the publicly funded, privately run schools would improve students’ college prospects. |
| Source: www.chalkbeat.org |
| April 2, 2019 |
| Charter school board hires investigator to look at allegations reported by WWL-TV, places CEO on paid leave |
| New Beginnings charter schools CEO Michelle Blouin-Williams is under fire for alleged grade-fixing at Kennedy High and allegedly falsifying board records, but unlike one whistleblower, she will get paid during the investigation. |
| Source: www.wwltv.com |
| April 2, 2019 |
| County denies charter renewal petition for Foothill Leadership Academy |
| The Tuolumne County Board of Education unanimously denied the renewal of a five-year charter for Sonora charter school Foothill Leadership Academy Monday evening, bringing out a bitter tirade from the school’s founder and parents. “You just don’t care, you’re another politician, " said charter school founder Ian McVey to Tuolumne County |
| Source: www.uniondemocrat.com |
| April 2, 2019 |
| How many lawyers does it take to shut down a failing charter school? | Opinion |
| The state’s charter law, characterized as “the worst in the nation" by Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, was written to benefit charter operators and investors "”and obviously their lawyers. |
| Source: www.philly.com |
| April 1, 2019 |
| How a federal program was exploited to pay for privately owned charter school buildings |
| New Jersey's largest charter school operators are getting hundreds of millions of dollars from a federal program created to help build public schools. |
| Source: www.northjersey.com |
| March 31, 2019 |
| Federal court rules Leland charter school’s dress code violates Constitution |
| A federal court ruled Thursday that Charter Day School’s dress policy requiring female students to wear skirts to school violates the Constitution. |
| Source: www.wect.com |
| March 30, 2019 |
| WWL-TV Exclusive: Records, sources say charter school falsified board minutes on bus contract |
| WWL-TV has uncovered serious allegations that a charter school management organization falsified public meeting minutes to make it look like its board of directors properly approved a school bus contract worth upwards of $1 million a year. |
| Source: www.wwltv.com |
| March 30, 2019 |
| Small districts reap big profits by approving charter schools with little oversight |
| Hit hard by the recession and declining enrollment, some of California's smallest school districts have been approving charter schools in exchange for fees. The practice, which is legal, has given districts an incentive not to monitor misbehaving charters. |
| Source: www.latimes.com |
| March 29, 2019 |
| Charter Schools Are Scamming the U.S. Government at Will |
| A new report finds the Department of Education blew nearly $1 billion in grant money on schools that never opened or were quickly shut down. |
| Source: www.truthdig.com |
| March 29, 2019 |
| Charter school teacher charged with sending teens nude photos |
| MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Prosecutors charged a former Minneapolis charter school employee for using Facebook to sexually exploit teenagers. Josiah Mosqueda worked at Hiawatha Academies from the fall o... |
| Source: kfgo.com |
| March 28, 2019 |
| This defunct Wellington charter school says it's bankrupt. Its ex-teachers are still fighting to be paid. |
| Eagle Arts Academy, the problem-plagued Wellington charter school forced to close in August, has filed for bankruptcy, as the school’s former teachers and landlord hound it in court for unpaid wages and rent.The nonprofit corporation that operated the school intends to dissolve itself as part of the bankruptcy process, its attorney said, a signal that it has abandoned its hope of winning more money from the county school board and the right to reopen.After years of financial woes and |
| Source: www.palmbeachpost.com |
| March 28, 2019 |
| South L.A. Teacher Struggles to Reconcile Charter School’s Conditions With Wealthy Founders | KTLA |
| The warning signs appeared soon after Denise Kawamoto accepted a job at Today’s Fresh Start Charter School in South Los Angeles. Though she was fresh out of college, she was pretty sure it wasn’t normal for the school to churn so quickly through teachers or to mount surveillance cameras in ea... |
| Source: ktla.com |
| March 27, 2019 | Former Hiawatha educator charged with sexually exploiting kids online |
| The man charged, Josiah Raul Mosqueda, 27, was a former Hiawatha paraprofessional who last worked at the school in June 2018, according to school spokeswoman Libby Stenger. ...In a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday, Mosqueda is accused of communicating with students ranging ages 13 to 17 over Facebook from July 2017 to November 2018. |
| Source: www.startribune.com |
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