American Indian charter school parents speak out - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

American Indian charter school parents speak out - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

American Indian charter school parents speak out

Thursday, December 6th, 2012 at 5:28 pm in No Comments

American Indian Model Schools supporters, seen here at an April Oakland school board meeting, before the final state report on the charter organization was published. Photo by D. Ross Cameron.
The fate of the American Indian Model Schools won’t be on Wednesday’s regular Oakland school board meeting agenda, but we can expect a large group of parents and students from the three schools at the meeting.
Bernadette Coleman, president of the schools’ new Family Advisory Committee, told me today she believes the Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team’s scathing report about the AIMS governance, operations and suspected financial fraud — which came out this summer, prompting OUSD to issue a “notice of violation” in September — was full of errors.
If and when the OUSD board holds a hearing on the subject, Coleman said, “it’ll be public knowledge what is true