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Charter school scandals of the day

Charter schools are by design a griftogenic environment, so operators are at their most creative in figuring out ways to benefit themselves:

September 12, 2019
Scottsdale charter school to shut its doors this Friday
Arts Academy of Scottsdale used it small class sizes as a selling point to parents. But the classes got too small for the school to stay open.
Source: www.azfamily.com

September 11, 2019
Rowan County charter school placed on allotment restrictions’ amid financial, leadership concerns
The sanctions came after school leaders were unable to competently discuss the details of its more than $1 million budget with certainty or adequately explain why a convicted felon was added to the board of directors.
Source: pulse.ncpolicywatch.org

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

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MN EDUCATION REFORM CORE

Great MN Schools $ 33,537,921
Teach for America Twin Cities $ 12,805,105
Minnesota Comeback CLOSED $ 11,139,019
Hiawatha Academies $ 11,095,449
KIPP Minnesota $ 7,093,764
Advancing Equity Coalition $ 6,349,594
Policy Innovators in Education Network Inc. (PIE Network) $ 6,069,789
Ed Allies $ 5,824,154
Educators 4 Excellence, Inc. $ 4,946,913
Charter School Partners CLOSED $ 4,871,464
Center of the American Experiment $ 4,291,071
MinnCAN CLOSED $ 4,155,592
Harvest Preparatory Charter School CLOSED $ 3,099,438
Our Turn, Inc., nee Students for Education Reform (SFER) $ 2,768,250
Education Evolving $ 2,565,750
Charlemagne Institute - nee Intellectual Takeout $ 2,250,260
Harvest Network of Schools CLOSED $ 1,692,256
The New Teacher Project $ 1,451,206
Minnesota Parent Union $ 1,119,340
Total: $ 127,126,335