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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:
| August 28, 2019 |
| Schools Tied to A3 Charter School Scandal Will All Close - Voice of San Diego |
| An online charter school empire whose leaders have been charged with enrolling fake students and misappropriating $80 million in public funds will be forced to close all of its schools across California. |
| Source: www.voiceofsandiego.org |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Jonetta rose barras: No justice for a 12-year-old DC girl who died by suicide |
| A few years before Stormiyah Denson-Jackson took her own life in her dormitory at SEED Public Charter School, Scott Pearson told the leader of FOCUS, a charter lobbying group, to ignore the mandates of the South Capitol Street Memorial Amendment Act |
| Source: thedcline.org |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Taught by substitute teachers, Michigan charter school students relied on YouTube |
| The Universal Academy in Detroit received notoriety in June when a video went viral of the co-salutatorians criticizing the value of their education. Concerns over schools’ reliance on subs remain. |
| Source: www.bridgemi.com |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Officials: Charter school served unsafe food to students |
| An audit showed Lincoln Memorial Academy was $500,000 in debt and had $780,000 in unpaid invoices. The School District of Manatee County says that’s why it revoked the Palmetto school’s charter in... |
| Source: www.fox13news.com |
| August 28, 2019 |
| Nashville school board votes to close Knowledge Academies charter school |
| Knowledge Academies faced scrutiny over its finances and other activities of its former CEO. |
| Source: www.tennessean.com |
| August 24, 2019 |
| KIPP co-founder Mike Feinberg sues charter school network for defamation |
| Mike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP, filed a defamation lawsuit against the national charter network Thursday in a bid to force the organization to turn over information to rebut the sexual abuse and harassment allegations that led to his firing. |
| Source: www.houstonchronicle.com |
| August 24, 2019 |
| Landlord seeks to evict Plato Academy charter school in Trinity over unpaid rent |
| The sides have been embroiled in legal disagreements since shortly after the death of Plato founder Steve Christopoulos. |
| Source: www.tampabay.com |
| August 24, 2019 |
| Tenn. substitute teacher who says she killed man is put in classroom with victim's sibling |
| A Tennessee substitute teacher who told police she killed a young man in a drug deal last month was then assigned to a classroom with the victim's sibling, according to the group that runs the charter school. |
| Source: cbsaustin.com |
| August 22, 2019 |
| New Study Reveals Privately-Run Charter Schools Under-Enroll Students with Disabilities | UTLA |
| “For years, we have heard anecdotally from parents, public and charter educators that the charter industry under-enrolls students with disabilities. For the first time, we can now quantify those stories using data from three of the three largest charter authorizers in the state. When charters choose |
| Source: www.utla.net |
| August 22, 2019 |
| GoLocalProv | Senator Calls for “Dismantlement " of Achievement First in RI, Cites Abuse at Schools |
| Democratic State Senator Sam Bell is calling for the dismantling of Achievement First’s management in Rhode Island. GoLocalProv.com reports. |
| Source: www.golocalprov.com |
| August 22, 2019 |
| Critics Call Inspire Charter School Practices 'Unethical' |
| Critics of Inspire Charter School accuse Inspire of using unethical practices to entice parents and students to leave their current charter schools and go to Inspire. |
| Source: www.nbcsandiego.com |
| August 20, 2019 |
| As they ask for more money, two Indiana virtual schools say they are all but closed |
| Despite painting a picture of schools that are all but shut down, an attorney for Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy asked for money to keep them open. |
| Source: www.chalkbeat.org |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Charter principal has long discipline file. There was no time to find someone else, district says |
| Ronnie King, the interim principal at Lincoln Memorial Academy charter school, failed to report an allegation of child abuse in 2017, and he recently made derogatory statements to a teacher at his previous school, according to records from his personnel file. |
| Source: bradenton.com |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Vaunted D.C. charter school sued again over teacher who sexually abused children |
| The family of a third student has filed a $30 million lawsuit against a respected D.C. charter school in federal court, alleging that school employees failed to protect the child from a teacher who sexually abused students. |
| Source: washingtonpost.com |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Amid tensions statewide, an embattled California charter school's quest ends badly |
| Perhaps few disputes have matched the intensity of the one centered on Promise Academy. The charter school group, backed by heavy philanthropic support, wanted to open a K-8 engineering- and science-focused school for low-income students in downtown San José, where high-tech firms, led by Google and Adobe, plan to add more than 25,000 jobs within the next decade. |
| Source: edsource.org |
| August 20, 2019 |
| Poor school districts are funding the state’s cyber charter schools, research shows. That wasn’t always the case |
| Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools "” taxpayer-funded, privately managed schools that offer their curriculum online "” enrolled close to 39,000 students in the 2018-19 academic year, according to a Capital-Star analysis of state Department of Education data. More likely than not, those students come from poorly funded districts where adults have low levels of education, recent research shows. |
| Source: penncapital-star.com |
| August 14, 2019 |
| California Charter School Vaccination Rate Dips to 57% |
| High vaccination rates can create herd immunity protection for infants |
| Source: www.precisionvaccinations.com |
| August 14, 2019 |
| Mother Files Suit Against L.A. Charter School Claiming Her Son Suffered Brain Damage in Bullying Incident | KTLA |
| The mother of a student at Animo Westside Charter Middle School is filing a lawsuit against the school, after she says he suffered brain damage following an act of bullying. Surveillance footage shows the boy being pushed and held against a wall by another student. |
| Source: ktla.com |
| August 10, 2019 |
| Parents left scrambling after school says it won't open days before new year |
| The school put out a statement Friday, saying students will have to wait another year for the school to open. |
| Source: www.wsbtv.com |
| August 9, 2019 |
| Utah charter school students 5 times more likely to get... |
| A report from the Utah Department of Health finds that vaccination rates for students at Utah charter schools are lower than those at public schools, meaning charter students are five times more likely than public school students to get chickenpox. |
| Source: www.deseretnews.com |
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