White Hat can't add Columbus charter school, state says
The state has denied White Hat Management’s request to open four of six new charter schools it hoped to open, including one in Columbus.
White Hat, the state’s largest for-profit charter-school manager, wanted the Ohio Department of Education to sponsor six new Signal Tree schools. One was planned for the West Side.
Education Department spokesman Patrick Gallaway said today that two were approved — one in Warrensville Heights and the other in Akron.
The Columbus school was planned as a K-8 building and would have opened this fall.
Rodd Coker, vice president of community engagement for Akron-based