Florida charter schools (high failure rate) *“I-Team: Lawmakers React To Charter School FCAT Failures.”* CBS4 News (FL) 7/6/11 ...Of Florida’s 2,280 public elementary and middle schools, only 17 scored an “F” on the FCAT. Of the state’s 270 Charter elementary and middle schools, 15 flunked. ...
Detroit charter high schools (test scores lower than DPS) *“Charter high schools in Detroit not making grade: Test scores for schools often trail DPS students' average.”* Detroit News 7/7/11 Once touted as a solution to Detroit's public school woes, charter high schools are often doing just about as poorly ...
Legacy Academy For Leaders and the Arts *"No Documentation of Financial Transactions Leads to More than $350,000 in Findings for Recovery: Special Audit of the Legacy Academy for Leaders and the Arts." *Released Press Release – Ohio Auditor of State 7/7/11 Columbus - A charter school ...
Palm Bay Community Charter School *“Palm Bay Community Charter School's fate unclear:Board votes 5-0 to send school 90-day notice of termination.” *Florida Today 6/30/11 Natalia Martinez went to a school board meeting Thursday, hoping to hear that the financially beset Palm Bay ...
Multi-Cultural Academy Charter School *“Charter's board ousts its founder: Vuong Thuy had been the subject of amonth of complaints from parents and staff about the school.” *Philadelphia Inquirer 5/8/11 Vuong Thuy, the founding chief executive of an academically successful North ...
Lee Charter Academy *“Editorial: Find why school's scores plunged.”* The News-Press (FL) 30 Jun 2011 The shocking plunge of Lee Charter Academy from the A grade the state gave it for three straight years to an F this year demands answers. Violent fluctuations in the ...
OWL Charter Academy *“OWL Charter will close.”* Idaho Press-Tribune 7/7/11 NAMPA — OWL Charter Academy officials have abandoned plans for a second year and will dissolve the fledgling Nampa school due to an inability to end the year with a balanced budget. OWL board ...
Main Street Academy Charter School *“Principal Implicated In CRCT Cheating Works At New Charter School.”* WSB Atlanta (GA) 7/7/11 ATLANTA -- A retired Atlanta Public School principal implicated in a massive cheating scandal is back at work -- this time, for a Fulton County charter ...
Halau Lokahi Public Charter School *“Charter school lessens debt, kin exit board.”* Honolulu Star Advertiser 6/17/11 In response to its first financial audit, Halau Lokahi Public Charter School in Kalihi is working to fix accounting problems and repay its debts, and has removed ...
KIPP Impact Middle School "New Jacksonville KIPP charter scores at bottom in FCAT.” Florida Times-Union 6/30/11 A charter school that opened this year with high expectations and wealthy, powerful backers scored at the bottom of all schools in all of Northeast Florida in ...
Summit Academy - Columbus *“Breast milk sprayer fired from teaching job.”* The Columbus Dispatch (OH) 7/1/11 The woman who sprayed Delaware County sheriff's deputies with breast milk while resisting arrest last weekend has been fired from her teaching job, according to ...
Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School *“Lighthouse Charter School loses director applicant, board member.” *Cape Cod Today (MA) 6/28/11 Director applicant withdraws, three board members not replaced / Are things coming apart at the Cape's only charter middle school? The school room ...
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School *“A charter school finds itself stuck between two controversies.”* Gotham Schools 6/10/11 (Update: A spokesperson for the city Administration for Children Services tells Gotham Schools that Strong Place and Bethel Day Care Centers will continue ...
CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
A compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tampering with admissions, grades, attendance and testing; misuse of funds and embezzlement; engaging in nepotism and conflicts of interest; engaging in complicated and shady real estate deals; and/or have been engaging in other questionable, unethical, borderline-legal, or illegal activities. This is also a record of charter school instability and other unsavory tidbits.
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