Charter schools’ family ties spark questions
A state school board member is questioning whether family members should be allowed to contract with one another to run charter schools, calling the relationship between a charter-school academy and its management company “not right.”
But the practice of family members running charter schools together is not unique to one school. Charter schools are independently run public schools often started by groups of parents.
Outgoing state school board member Denis Morrill raised the issue at a board meeting this month as the board considered American Preparatory Academy’s request to expand beyond its current plans. The academy pays a charter school management company $986 a year per student to run its tw
