Saturday, March 20, 2010

Schools Matter: Renew Charter to Recoup $200k?

Schools Matter: Renew Charter to Recoup $200k?

Renew Charter to Recoup $200k?

What do you do when a charter school - which owes the authorizing district $200k because of shoddy financial management - comes up for renewal? Well, any penny-pincing district (ie ever school district in America) would do whatever they could to recoup those funds.

The backstory to this $200k debt involves a company calledEdChoices, a charter leader named Tim King (Tim's Twitter name is EdChoices), and a school district (and State) unable to monitor evolving charter operators and practices. King recently resigned