Revisiting Florida’s 2012 Charter School Scandals | Scathing Purple Musings

Revisiting Florida’s 2012 Charter School Scandals | Scathing Purple Musings

Revisiting Florida’s 2012 Charter School Scandals

by Bob Sikes

Tampa Bay Times reporter Diane Steinle sees the unseemly details of a taxpayer-funded charter school as one of North Pinellas biggest stories of the year:

Life Force Arts and Technology Academy, a publicly funded charter school in Dunedin, was open for only two years, but in that time it accumulated a lengthy list of shortcomings: mismanagement, misappropriation of funds, deviations from the authorized curriculum, bankruptcy and some of the lowest student test scores in the Tampa Bay area.
Students lacked for school supplies, and teachers were paid only $85 a day, with no benefits or contracts.
Life Force was already in bankruptcy when Hanan Islam and her Clearwater company, the Art of 

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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Gulen charter schools in Florida

Jul 24, 2012

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 ...

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Florida virtual schools provider K12 (43 school districts)

Sep 20, 2012

The Florida Department of Education has launched an investigation of K12, the nation's largest online educator, over allegations the company uses uncertified teachers and has asked employees to help cover up the practice.

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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Florida charter schools

Aug 23, 2010

At the same time, more than $200 million of the $492 million Florida spent on these privately operated schools in 2005 went to charters that had business relationships with school officials: renting buildings to the charters, ...

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Florida charter schools (high failure rate) - Charter School Scandals

Jul 09, 2011

MIAMI (CBS4) – In his first visit to South Florida as governor, Rick Scott visited Florida International Academy, a charter school operated with public money by a private, for-profit company. Scott – a big charter school booster ...

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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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