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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:
| September 17, 2025 | The Billion-Dollar Experiment: How New Orleans' Charter School Revolution Failed the Children It Promised to Save - Public Voices For Public Schools |
| Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the nation's most radical education overhaul has produced stunning inequality alongside modest test gains |
| Source: pv4ps.org |
| September 17, 2025 |
| MN Attorney General reaches $220,000 settlement in Hmong College Prep funds suit – Twin Cities |
| Attorney General Keith Ellison in December sued Christianna Hang, alleging she invested $5 million without the approval of the school’s board. |
| Source: www.twincities.com |
| September 10, 2025 |
| Former Minnesota Teacher of the Year found guilty of sexually assaulting his 14-year-old student |
| Abdul Jameel Wright was found guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct by a person in a position of authority against a 13-15 year old. |
| Source: www.startribune.com |
| September 10, 2025 |
| These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing. |
| Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years. |
| Source: www.propublica.org |
| September 5, 2025 |
| After child dies and 2 others at 'high risk of death,' concerns raised over cyber charters |
| As enrollment numbers for cyber charter schools continue to grow in Pennsylvania, NBC10 Investigators looked into the concerns about accountability. |
| Source: www.nbcphiladelphia.com |
| 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 |
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