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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:
| 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 |
| December 19, 2025 | West Virginia Judge Says Charter Schools Violate State Constitution |
| In December 2025, Judge Jennifer Bailey of the 8th Judicial Circuit Court in West Virginia ruled that the creation of the state’s charter schools are unconstitutional because they were authorized by the West Virginia Professional Charter School Board (PCSB) instead of being authorized by “the constitutionally mandated consent of a majority of affected county voters.” |
| Source: dissidentvoice.org |
| December 16, 2025 |
| Layoffs begin at Pa. cyber charter schools after historic state budget cuts |
| Some schools have started to furlough staff to plug large budget holes, while others have enough financial reserves to delay changes. |
| Source: www.pennlive.com |
| December 16, 2025 | Document leaked to 8 News Now under investigation as state takes over troubled Las Vegas-area charter school |
| LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The State Public Charter School Authority (SPCSA) has taken over a troubled Las Vegas-area school, seeking to correct financial and academic problems. SPCSA declined last Friday to renew the license for Nevada Prep Charter School, effectively setting them up for closure. However, a document leaked to 8 News Now shows disciplinary issues at the school are also at the center of an investigation. |
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| December 15, 2025 |
| SC charter sponsor set to shut down. Where will schools go? |
| Limestone University’s May closure left the charter schools it sponsored homeless. This week, all 17 decided what to do next. At least two will shut down. |
| Source: www.postandcourier.com |
| December 8, 2025 |
| Charter Schools in a Racist Big Easy |
| New Orleans was the site of the largest slave market in America. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, more than 135,000 slaves were purchased in the Big Easy. This racist legacy has survived up until today in many of its White citizens, business leaders and politicians. The book William… |
| Source: tultican.com |
| December 2, 2025 |
| Florida charter school company run by GOP figure leaves parents frustrated: "They dropped the ball" |
| Taxpayer-funded charter schools are spreading in communities around the country, offering a curriculum with a Eurocentric focus that stresses traditional values. Our CBS News investigation found these taxpayer-funded schools operate with limited public oversight. Mark Strassmann spoke with a group of parents who feel betrayed after one Florida school failed to open. |
| Source: www.cbsnews.com |
| November 26, 2025 | Ismael Loera: What the Success Academy Scandal Says About the Charter School Model - Network For Public Education |
| Eva Moskowitz has been caught demanding that staff and students put in time as lobbyists for her charter school chain– including during what was supposed to be the school day. Ismael Loera writing in The Fulcrum explains what that tells us about the charter school industry. |
| Source: networkforpubliceducation.org |
| November 26, 2025 |
| Life in prison for Minnesota’s ‘most prolific’ child abuser |
| A former Twin Cities area teacher and coach convicted of sexually abusing more than a dozen young boys spanning multiple schools was sentenced Monday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. |
| Source: www.fox9.com |
| November 21, 2025 |
| St. Louis charter school on probation, could shutter over safety and academic violations |
| ST. LOUIS — A two-year-old charter elementary school could shut down next month over academic, staffing and safety concerns, including a recent incident in which a student left the downtown campus unsupervised. |
| Source: stltoday.com |
| November 19, 2025 | Minnesota now has one of the nation’s lowest kindergarten measles vaccination rates |
| The steepest drops in kindergarten MMR rates have been in private and charter schools, according to data from the Minnesota Department of Health. |
| Source: startribune.com |
| November 18, 2025 | Pay and performance fluctuate greatly at Minnesota charter schools, 5 INVESTIGATES review finds |
| 5 INVESTIGATES analyzed contracts at the 30 largest charter schools in Minnesota, focusing on compensation, benefits and student achievement. |
| Source: kstp.com |
| November 9, 2025 | Florida “Schools of Hope” Law Intensifies School Privatization | Dissident Voice |
| Over the past 33 years privately-operated charter schools have seized billions of dollars in public funds and public property that rightly belong to public schools. This neoliberal parasitism has been achieved mainly through state laws and schemes that legalize and normalize such wealth transfers in the name of “school choice,” “parent empowerment,” “accountability,” “competition,” and |
| Source: dissidentvoice.org |
| November 7, 2025 |
| Lagging enrollment for new North Carolina charter schools raises questions about expansion |
| When seven charter schools opened in North Carolina this fall, each had submitted enrollment projections as part of their application. But on Thursday, the State Board of Education heard that none of them met those goals, and one missed by nearly 70%. |
| Source: ncnewsline.com |
| October 21, 2025 |
| Parents of Walton Academy students scrambling to find new schools for their children |
| Parents say the ruling on late Friday left them scrambling on Monday to find new schools for their children. |
| Source: www.wfla.com |
| October 17, 2025 |
| The quiet intent behind school vouchers said out loud |
| Spearheading the school voucher movement is this narrative that the best way to improve the education system is through expanded options for parents. As often repeated by supporters of school vouchers, give people the choice to send their child to whatever school they please. |
| Source: www.timesfreepress.com |
| October 16, 2025 | ‘It’s really unfair’: Triad parents blindsided by High Point charter school’s immediate closure |
| A group of Triad parents, many with children who have unique learning needs, are trying to determine where their children will attend school after a local charter academy announced its immediate closure on Wednesday. |
| Source: myfox8.com |
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