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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 6, 2024 | Twin Cities teacher indicted in sexually assaults of 12 children |
| Aaron Hjermstad is serving 12 years for sexually assaulting four other students. The new charges carry the potential for a life sentence... Hjermstad taught at several charter schools in the Twin Cities |
| Source: www.startribune.com |
| September 6, 2024 |
| Former Minnesota Teacher of the Year charged with grooming, sexually assaulting student, 14 |
| Abdul Wright taught at Harvest Best Academy in Minneapolis during the alleged assaults and most recently taught at St. Louis Park High School. |
| Source: www.startribune.com |
| September 6, 2024 |
| Charter school fraud was under current leader, ex-employees say |
| The Minnesota Internship Center had 4% attendance and 5% graduation rates, while its leader took coworkers to Topgolf, according to state records and interviews with school insiders. |
| Source: www.startribune.com |
| September 2, 2024 |
| Rosa Parks Charter High School to close its doors |
| (ABC 6 News) — Rosa Parks Charter High School will be closing its doors on October 10 after 25 years of operation. The closure comes after a months-long investigation into claims made against the school of inadequate staffing, lack of professional boundaries and more. |
| Source: www.kaaltv.com |
| August 14, 2024 |
| Religious Charter School's Controversial Move: Seeking Public Funds to Relocate to Valley Village |
| The material revision would authorize the charter school, which teaches Hebrew language along with Jewish religion and culture, to operate at a house of worship in Valley Village. |
| Source: www.citywatchla.com |
| August 12, 2024 |
| Minnesota charter school loses $1.3 million over inflated enrollment |
| The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the decision to pull funding from the Minnesota Internship Center; a school leader said administrators involved in falsifying records are gone. |
| Source: www.startribune.com |
| July 16, 2024 |
| Mike Miles Moved Texas School Funds to Colorado Through a Possible Shell Corporation Without a Paper Trail |
| An Observer investigation has found irregularities in how the Houston ISD superintendent's Colorado charter school nonprofit did business in Texas. |
| Source: www.texasobserver.org |
| June 12, 2024 | At Florida homeschool convention, an education in MAGA politics |
| KISSIMMEE, Fla. (RNS) — Amid more typical homeschool concerns such as combating screen time and filling gaps in homeschool math curricula, the overarching message of the 40th annual Florida Homeschool Convention was about politics, not education. |
| Source: religionnews.com |
| June 10, 2024 |
| All Charter District Opens Public School | tultican |
| By Thomas Ultican 6/9/2024 New Orleans Public Schools, aka Orleans Parish School District (OPSD), became America’s first and only all charter school district in 2017. After hurricane Katrina, the state took over all but five schools in the city. When management was transferred to charter organizations in 2017, OPSD officially became an all charter district.… |
| Source: tultican.com |
| June 7, 2024 |
| Parents of private voucher students spent over $1 million of public money buying Lego sets |
| Legos are allowable expenses under the state's ESA program, but the volume and type of sets is controversial. |
| Source: www.12news.com |
| June 6, 2024 |
| One hundred thousand Twin Cities lives ruined by school segregation |
| Twin Cities school segregation is at its very worst in the large and growing charter school sector. |
| Source: www.startribune.com |
| June 3, 2024 |
| After a 7-year experiment, New Orleans is an all-charter district no more |
| The closely watched experiment is coming to an end. New Orleans Public Schools will now act both as a charter school authorizer and an old-fashioned sch... |
| Source: www.route-fifty.com |
| May 29, 2024 |
| Former CEO of Indianapolis Tindley charter network faces federal fraud charges |
| Former Tindley Accelerated Schools CEO Brian Metcalf is accused of fraudulently billing the school for goods and services he and two other defendants allegedly never intended to deliver. |
| Source: www.chalkbeat.org |
| May 20, 2024 | In Pennsylvania, A Cyber Charter School Builds A Real Estate Empire |
| A new report shows Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools amassing a large stockpile of assets. The Education Voters of PA report shows that the four largest cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania in 2018 had net assets and fund balances totaling $566,858; in 2022, that total had grown to $486 million. |
| Source: forbes.com |
| May 13, 2024 |
| A $132 million loophole in Minnesota’s anti-corruption laws |
| The retiring superintendent of Noble Academy, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, received a multimillion-dollar contract, without competitive bidding. How do charter schools award contracts? |
| Source: sahanjournal.com |
| May 3, 2024 |
| Inside the ‘astonishing’ salaries at N.J. school empire. Taxpayers foot the huge bill. |
| The founder of the public charter school network earns nearly $700,000, and six others make more than $209,000. |
| Source: www.nj.com |
| April 29, 2024 | Lena Pope to shut down Fort Worth charter school in August | Fort Worth Report |
| Chapel Hill Academy has been open since 2008. A shrinking enrollment, funding woes and more competition led to the school’s planned closure. |
| Source: fortworthreport.org |
| April 22, 2024 |
| Charter School Founders Accused Of Massive Fraud |
| Prosecutors are accusing three men of bilking Oklahoma out of millions of dollars in public school funds through a charter school plan that one of the defendants told a state district court prioritized income. |
| Source: www.zerohedge.com |
| April 13, 2024 |
| A charter school in Las Vegas faces closure if more than $800K in taxpayer funds are not repaid |
| A newly opened Las Vegas charter school is facing allegations of misuse of taxpayer funds and could close if the money isn't paid back, documents said. |
| Source: www.8newsnow.com |
| March 29, 2024 |
| Epic schools founders never reported millions on tax returns |
| An auditor from the state testified that Epic Charter Schools’ co-founders never claimed on tax returns $144 million in student Learning Funds they now contend were their "private funds." #oklaed |
| Source: tulsaworld.com |
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