Two new charter schools in Utah have been warned that they may have to close by the end of the year, due to low enrollments.
The Utah State Charter School Board voted Thursday morning to begin the process of closing two financially troubled charter schools.
St. George Academy in Washington County and Capstone Classical Academy in Pleasant View are now on a watch list and have 14 days to ask for a meeting to appeal the charter school board’s decision.
Both schools are less than two years old. Capstone said they planned on having 500 students enrolled by this year, but the school struggled to recruit students and, as of Thursday, only had 177 students signed up.
The school gets money from the state for each student enrolled. The lack of bodies in the school means the state charter school board fears the school could be as much as $450,000 in the hole by the end of the year.
If the schools fail to convince the charter school board to allow them to stay open, they will be the second and third charter schools to be closed in the past two years.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
and yet certain ‘administrators’ who received salaries won’t be paying any of it back….
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Apparently enough parents in these two districts are happy with their local schools and are not fooled by the charter school hype. Thank you parents.
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GOP clueless hypocrisy in Utah today- Mitt Romney’s niece, the RNC National Chair, criticized a Democrat’s nepotism (Biden’s son)… not her own and, not the Trump kids’.
Next stop for her, Fox, run by Murdoch’s sons.
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Last year at a different Utah charter school- $5,000,000 owed to the state and federal government – the school admin “felt they would never be able to pay off the debt”.
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And the charter school sold off all of the equipment and technology that belonged to the taxpayers, and the money was not used to pay back the state.
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Utah’s government is similar to other state governments- it is not a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The only way forward for change is the election of progressive Dems like OAC, and Bernie.
Due to low birth rates, most states have aging populations. The over 65, Republicans in those states believe in Social Security and Medicare while hypocritically denouncing socialism.
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