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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 21, 2026 | Privatizers Hijack Indianapolis Public Schools |
| For the past few weeks the news has been filled with articles about the replacement of public control of Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) with a top-down “board” comprised of unelected pro-privatization forces that will oversee both public schools and privately-operated charter schools in the city. |
| Source: thedissidentvoice.org |
| April 14, 2026 | Bank Account of South Carolina Charter School Emptied out |
| #ANOTHERDAYANOTHERCHARTERSCHOOLSCANDAL is a regularly updated blog documenting a range of crimes and scandals plaguing the crisis-ridden charter school sector. The blog was created by the Network for Public Education and offers hundreds of mainstream news stories spanning many years and chronicling more than one can fathom. |
| Source: thedissidentvoice.org |
| April 10, 2026 | Harvest Best pushes forward as eviction threatens school |
| Harvest Best Academy faced major challenges this year, including multiple lawsuits and a leadership change. But leaders of the Minneapolis charter school express optimism for its future. |
| Source: sahanjournal.com |
| April 8, 2026 | Tempo of Charter School Crimes and Arrests Never Decreases |
| Even though they make up only 8% of schools in the country, crimes, scandals, and arrests take place at a robust tempo in the nation’s privately-operated charter schools. |
| Source: thedissidentvoice.org |
| April 4, 2026 | Burnsville charter school paraprofessional arrested, charged in underage sex sting |
| An educator at a Burnsville charter school is facing criminal charges after he allegedly exchanged sexual messages with an undercover deputy posing as a 15-year-old girl. |
| Source: kstp.com |
| April 3, 2026 | One Of Michigan’s Oldest Charter Schools Is Failing And May Be Closing |
| Like so many charter schools across the country, Barack Obama Leadership Academy in Detroit, Michigan, may soon be closing for the same reasons charter schools fail and close every week (declining enrollment, financial malfeasance, mismanagement, and/or low academic performance).Timbuktu Academy, which has been open since 1997, became Barack Obama Leadership Academy in 2019—ten years after Barack Obama became president of the United States.Let’s first glance at some facts about Barack Obama Lead |
| Source: stell55.wixsite.com |
| February 25, 2026 |
| Push for publicly funded charter schools fails in South Dakota Senate |
| A South Dakota charter school bill failed in the Senate on a tie vote after Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen declined to break the deadlock. |
| Source: www.kotatv.com |
| February 19, 2026 |
| Kentucky Supreme Court rules GOP-backed charter schools bill unconstitutional |
| The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Republican-backed bill establishing a statewide public charter school system was unconstitutional. In a unanimous opinion authored by Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Michelle Keller, the state’s high court struck down 2022’s House Bill 9, which would have allowed approved groups to create and oversee charter schools funded with public education dollars. |
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| February 12, 2026 | Why America Must Rewrite Charter School Laws Now - Progressive.org |
| Research shows charter school laws enable mismanagement, profiteering, and instability at the expense of students and taxpayers. |
| Source: progressive.org |
| February 9, 2026 |
| ‘Difficult decision:’ 2 Atlanta charter schools to close at school year’s end |
| The end of the school year means the end of two Atlanta-based charter schools. |
| Source: www.wsbtv.com |
| February 4, 2026 | Florida’s Charter Schools Lower State’s 2024-25 Graduation Rate |
| While corruption is endemic to the decades-old charter school sector, it is extra rampant in Florida’s charter schools. To add insult to injury, Florida also has the nation’s second highest charter school failure and closure rate. No amount of “school choice” rhetoric in Florida has improved this record. School privatization is notorious for lowering the level of education. |
| Source: dissidentvoice.org |
| February 3, 2026 | NYS: Why Are Authoritarian Entities Needed to Create Charter Schools if They Are So Popular? |
| But if charter schools are marvelous and popular why have charter school promoters spent years using top-down heavy-handed entities comprised of unelected pro-privatization individuals to impose charter schools on communities across the country? |
| Source: dissidentvoice.org |
| January 13, 2026 |
| In rare move, Oklahoma charter school ordered to close at end of school year |
| The Statewide Charter School Board voted to terminate the school’s founding contract |
| Source: oklahomavoice.com |
| January 12, 2026 |
| Epic Charter faces forensic audit after budget collapse |
| — Superintendent, finance staff resigned as layoffs, shortfall loomed |
| Source: freepressokc.com |
| January 3, 2026 |
| This isn’t school ‘choice.’ It’s public money siphoned off for private education. |
| The Colorado Schools Fund, launched in 2024 with $50 million in philanthropic support, is not simply financing new charter and microschools. It is reshaping the public narrative about education itself. Through a strategic mix of capital, ideology and political influence, CSF and its allies are advancing a powerful message: that market-driven “choice” is the only remedy for supposedly irredeemable public schools. |
| Source: coloradonewsline.com |
| January 1, 2026 |
| Charter School Flimflam Documented | tultican |
| By Thomas Ultican 12/31/2025 Charter schooling has a 33-year history. In 1992, the first one opened in Minnesota and it was exactly the kind of school American Federation of Teachers President Al Shankar envisioned when he promoted the idea. It was small, teacher-run within a public district that tested innovative strategies to reach hard-to-teach kids.… |
| Source: tultican.com |
| December 23, 2025 |
| Charter Schools Continue to Neglect Special Needs Students |
| One of the most common and persistent criticisms made about charter schools over the last 30+ years is that they frequently shortchange special needs students. Every year numerous articles appear on this troubling topic and highlight the refusal of the charter school sector to overcome this nagging problem and put it behind them once and |
| Source: dissidentvoice.org |
| December 23, 2025 |
| How the Charter School Industry’s Newest Scheme Could Be ‘the Death of Public Schools' |
| The letters started coming in October 2025. In the first wave, according to the Florida Policy Institute (FPI), “at least 22 school districts in Florida” got letters alerting them that charter school operators, including a for-profit charter school management company based in Miami, intended to use a state law recently enacted to open new charter schools on the campuses of existing public schools beginning August 2027. |
| Source: www.counterpunch.org |
| December 23, 2025 |
| A Philly charter just laid off 17 employees. Students, staff, and parents say it’s a sign of troubling changes at the school |
| The school, a K-12 in Hunting Park, has seen changes in the past year, culminating with teacher layoffs this month. Now, Esperanza Academy Charter High School staff are attempting to unionize. |
| Source: www.inquirer.com |
| December 20, 2025 |
| Erie School District sues Erie Rise to spur ex-charter school's dissolution, find assets |
| The relationship between the Erie School District and the Erie Rise Leadership Academy Charter School has reached a new level of tension nearly a year after the Erie School Board terminated Erie Rise's charter due to failing test scores. |
| Source: www.aol.com |
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