Charter school applications assisted by OKC's Ben Harris
Oklahoma City man is behind a dozen charter school applications that have ties to former colleagues who now run new companies.
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Ben Harris, an Oklahoma City man who is working on a dozen charter school applications in other states, is behind a proposed virtual charter school in Oklahoma that sued the state Education Department.
Harris is listed as a registered agent for Community Strategies Inc., the nonprofit that is opening Epic 1 on 1 Charter School. He uses his home address on the corporate papers, and he worked behind the scenes to get the school approved by the University of Central Oklahoma.
Harris, 35, is an expert on virtual charter schools. He worked on the applications of a dozen schools in Florida, California and Arizona for the Bricktown-based company Advanced Academics Inc.
Yet, Harris said all of the work he has done in Oklahoma is strictly on a volunteer basis to assist his childhood friend David Chaney, who is the founder of Epic 1 on 1 Charter
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