Former Miami-Dade Superintendent to Run Failing Imagine Charter Schools in Missouri
Earlier this week Missouri’s education commissioner asked Imagine to close its schools at the end of the year. Imagine CEO Dennis Bakke has been in St. Louis this week and has named a new director. From Elisa Crouch writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Charter school operator Imagine Schools Inc. on Tuesday named a top executive to oversee its six struggling schools in St. Louis.
Alan Olkes, who managed the company’s charter school operations in Texas and is former superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, now has the task of leading Imagine’s
