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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:

August 25, 2025
Teacher of the Year sex abuse trial set to begin
A former Minneapolis charter school teacher is scheduled to stand trial this week on charges that he sexually abused his former middle school student for almost a year.
Source: www.fox9.com

August 23, 2025
A Maryland charter school announces closure days before classes start
The charter school leadership said low enrollment and financial problems forced a ‘sudden closure.’
Source: washingtonpost.com

August 23, 2025
‘We just want to be paid’: Teachers left in limbo after charter school shuts down
Just days before the start of the new school year, Bexar County Academy charter school shut its doors for good. But for a group of summer school teachers, the problems didn’t end there.
Source: www.ksat.com

August 8, 2025
San Antonio charter school announces closure 5 days before start date
Bexar County Academy announced Wednesday it would not reopen for the 2025–2026 academic year. Classes were supposed to begin Monday.
Source: www.ksat.com

August 6, 2025
Harvest Best reaches tentative settlement in sex abuse case
North Minneapolis charter school Harvest Best Academy has reached a tentative settlement with a former student who was sexually assaulted by his basketball coach.
Source: sahanjournal.com

August 6, 2025
Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost - Network For Public Education
Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning, presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade.
Source: networkforpubliceducation.org

August 1, 2025
Jeb Bush is wrong about charters. They are gutting Florida’s public schools
Former Gov. Jeb Bush recently praised, in a Miami Herald opinion article, Florida’s expanding charter school and “Schools of Hope” programs as bold education reform. But what he describes as courageous and innovative is, in truth, part of a coordinated, well-funded campaign to defund and depopulate traditional public schools — not to improve them, but to replace them with privately managed institutions operating with public dollars.
Source: miamiherald.com

July 31, 2025
North Mpls. charter school sues nonprofit run by ousted founder's wife
North Minneapolis charter school Harvest Best Academy, which parted ways with founder Eric Mahmoud in March, estimates that Seed Daycare, run by his wife, has overcharged the school by more than $400,000.
Source: sahanjournal.com

July 23, 2025
Charter school run by group Walters partnered OSDE with faces shutdown in Arizona over failing grades
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A charter school run by a private online school State Superintendent Ryan Walters claims to have partnered the Oklahoma State Department of Education with—is facing a potential shutdown in Arizona, where state officials say the school’s students are performing so poorly it may no longer be allowed to operate.
Source: kfor.com

July 15, 2025
Twin Cities coach reported for sexual abuse continued working for years
A 12-year-old boy reported Excell Academy basketball coach Aaron Hjermstad for sexual abuse in 2015, but he kept teaching and abusing kids.
Source: sahanjournal.com

July 4, 2025
Public Money, Private Control: Inside New Orleans’ Charter School Overhaul
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became the nation’s first all-charter school district. Nearly 20 years later, the results are still contested—and the promises of equity remain unfulfilled.
Source: bigeasymagazine.com

June 28, 2025
Wenham all-girls prep school closes its doors amid low enrollment
The Academy at Penguin Hall announced its immediate closure on June 13, citing declining enrollment and low funding.
Source: www.boston.com

June 27, 2025
Pinellas charter school Plato Academy closes Largo site
The group continues to operate 8 schools in the Tampa Bay region.
Source: www.tampabay.com

June 27, 2025
Explore Academy shuts high school with little notice - Las Cruces Bulletin
The governing board of Explore Academy in Las Cruces voted to close their high school last week, surprising some parents. On Friday, June 20, the board voted unanimously to shutter the high …
Source: www.lascrucesbulletin.com

June 26, 2025
The future of these 2 Philadelphia charter schools is now uncertain
School board members said the poor academic performance of two charter schools led them to initiate a process that could lead to the schools closing.
Source: www.chalkbeat.org

June 26, 2025
Tiny Indiana District With Online School Worth Millions Ordered To Close – The 74
Legislators blame poor test scores while district says the fight is really over big e-school money.
Source: www.the74million.org

June 26, 2025
One St. Cloud charter school closes, another takes its building
STRIDE Academy charter school in St. Cloud, MN, will move grades 5-8 to the former Athlos site, and many Athlos staff members and students will move to STRIDE this fall.
Source: www.startribune.com

June 26, 2025
Sacramento charter school got $180 million it wasn't eligible for, audit finds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A state audit found that a Sacramento area charter school received more than $180 million in funding it was not eligible for, engaged in wasteful spending, and assigned teachers to classes they did not have the credentials to teach.
Source: kcra.com

June 7, 2025
Ex-leader of Indiana virtual charter schools pleads guilty to wire fraud
In the latest fallout from a statewide enrollment scandal, the ex-superintendent of two Indiana virtual charter schools agreed to pay a roughly $1.3 million judgment.
Source: www.chalkbeat.org

May 31, 2025
Hmong charter lawsuit v. hedge fund: $400,000 in settlement still unpaid – Twin Cities
A settlement agreement was signed last November between Clark Reiner, the hedge fund Woodstock Capital Partners and the school Hmong College Prep Academy.
Source: www.twincities.com

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MN EDUCATION REFORM CORE

Great MN Schools $ 46,220,911
Teach for America Twin Cities $ 15,934,797
Hiawatha Academies $ 11,491,364
Minnesota Comeback CLOSED $ 11,139,019
KIPP Minnesota $ 7,693,564
Policy Innovators in Education Network Inc. (PIE Network) $ 7,057,289
Ed Allies $ 7,006,454
Educators 4 Excellence, Inc. $ 6,293,613
Center of the American Experiment $ 5,528,953
Charter School Partners CLOSED $ 4,871,464
MinnCAN CLOSED $ 4,180,592
The New Teacher Project $ 4,163,105
Education Evolving $ 3,280,750
Harvest Preparatory Charter School CLOSED $ 3,099,438
Our Turn, Inc., nee Students for Education Reform (SFER) $ 2,927,556
Charlemagne Institute - nee Intellectual Takeout $ 2,283,310
Harvest Network of Schools CLOSED $ 1,692,256
Minnesota Parent Union $ 1,494,340
Advancing Equity Coalition $ 826,594
Total: $ 147,185,369