CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Prepared Table Charter School

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Prepared Table Charter School

Prepared Table Charter School

by The Perimeter Primate

This story evolved over nearly three years. Read the full sequence of events.

Church-run charter school may be booted out of Texas program (Church & State, September 1, 2002)

Education officials in Texas have pulled the plug on a church-run charter school that has been embroiled in scandal and financial mismanagement.
In mid July the Texas Education Agency (TEA) held a three-day hearing on the fate of the Prepared Table Charter School, an institution run by the Rev. Harold Wayne Wilcox of the Greater Progressive Tabernacle Baptist Church in Humble. The school, which has been in existence since 1998, has allegedly squandered millions in tax dollars.
On Aug. 16, TEA officials revoked the controversial school's state charter and its lucrative public funding.
Texas lawmakers approved a charter school law in 1997 but officials have been lax in overseeing

KIPP Academy in Fresno

by The Perimeter Primate

Allegations of Inappropriate Discipline Tactics Prompt KIPP Principal to Step Down (KMPH Fox 26, February 20, 2009)

Students and parents lined the streets outside the KIPP Academy in Fresno, outraged over the recent and sudden resignation of their principal Mr. Chi Tsichang…
But at a news conference Friday, the Fresno Unified School District offered a littl