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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:

July 7, 2026
Minneapolis charter school facing another sexual abuse lawsuit
A former student is suing Best Academy alongside a youth development program known as Hospitality House after he was sexually assaulted and videotaped by a former teacher, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Source: www.fox9.com

June 20, 2026
McKee signs charter school moratorium into law
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Gov. Dan McKee announced Thursday he has signed a bill placing a three-year moratorium on new charter schools and permanently lowering the cap on their total number, despite his longstanding and once-outspoken support for charters.
Source: wpri.com

June 20, 2026
New York: Charter School Operator Violates State’s Charter School Cap
A June 16, 2026, Press Release from New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) states that NYSUT and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in New York City, “have filed a legal challenge to stop a scheme by Success Academy Charter Schools and the State University of New York’s Charter School Committee that attempts to circumvent the state’s charter cap.”
Source: thedissidentvoice.org

June 12, 2026
Inside the Rapid Decline of Berkley Maynard Academy in North Oakland | KQED
Teachers, parents and staff say leadership turnover, staffing decisions and declining enrollment fueled the collapse of the North Oakland charter school.
Source: www.kqed.org

May 9, 2026
Minnesota, the birthplace of charter schools, needs to lead the way on reforming them
Too often, charter schools are highly segregated, underperform academically and employ underpaid educators
Source: minnesotareformer.com

May 5, 2026
Charter School Moving into Brooklyn Center’s Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church
A charter school has plans to move into a Catholic Church in Brooklyn Center. Eagle Ridge Academy got approval on April 27 from the Brooklyn Center City Council to open at Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church. Saint Alphonsus operated a school at the church from 1959 until its closure in 2024. Declining enrollment was cited as one of the factors in closing the school.
Source: https://ccxmedia.org

April 27, 2026
Minnesota: More Charter Schools Fail and Close in the First State to Open a Charter School
The first charter school law in the U.S. was passed in Minnesota in 1991. The first charter school in the country, City Academy High School, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992. Since then charter school laws have been passed in 47 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
Source: thedissidentvoice.org

April 24, 2026
Former Urban Prep Academies CEO indicted for embezzling more than $103,000 in school funding
A former Chicago charter school Chief Executive Officer has been indicted for allegedly taking thousands of dollars in school funds to cover expenses made on his personal credit card, the U.S. Attorney's Office Northern District of Illinois announced on Wednesday.
Source: cbsnews.com

April 23, 2026
Running low on money, [charter school] Academy for Sciences and Agriculture to shut down in June
In an announcement this week, the executive director of the 25-year-old school said it was “financially unsustainable.”
Source: startribune.com

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

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MN EDUCATION REFORM CORE

Great MN Schools $ 54,700,546
Teach for America Twin Cities $ 17,469,443
Hiawatha Academies $ 11,809,210
Minnesota Comeback CLOSED $ 11,139,019
Educators 4 Excellence, Inc. $ 8,707,913
Policy Innovators in Education Network Inc. (PIE Network) $ 8,694,289
Ed Allies $ 8,438,754
KIPP Minnesota $ 8,405,564
Center of the American Experiment $ 7,125,220
Charter School Partners CLOSED $ 4,871,464
The New Teacher Project $ 4,384,258
MinnCAN CLOSED $ 4,180,592
Education Evolving $ 3,865,750
Harvest Preparatory Charter School CLOSED $ 3,099,438
Our Turn, Inc., nee Students for Education Reform (SFER) $ 2,937,556
Charlemagne Institute - nee Intellectual Takeout $ 2,313,210
Harvest Network of Schools CLOSED $ 1,692,256
Minnesota Parent Union $ 1,619,340
Advancing Equity Coalition $ 896,880
Total: $ 166,350,702