While Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is eagerly expanding the charter school sector, a state panel decided to close a Memphis charter school because of its leaders “misappropriating” nearly $800,000.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Charter revoked. Today a state panel agreed with the Memphis Shelby County School board to pull the plug on a local charter school.
The Memphis Academy of Health Sciences (MAHS) appealed a January 12th decision by the board to revoke the charter and close the school. Today, the appeal was denied, MSCS’ ruling was upheld by the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission.
The decision follows allegations of former school administrators misspending school money, accused of misappropriating nearly $800,000 in funding.
“At least six years of mismanagement, and it’s hard to un-ring that bell,” said a member of the state charter school board.
The parents and students were disappointed but the missing money mattered.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Ed reform mouthpiece The 74 vastly overstates enrollment declines to declare “parents are fleeing public schools!”
https://www.the74million.org/article/covid-school-enrollment-students-move-away-from-urban-districts-virtual/
Federal and state lawmakers are advised by ed reformers and make decisions based on that. So a “movement” that is completely hostile to public schools and works top privatize K-12 education are also often the only information source on public schools.
Federal and state lawmakers need to diversify – relying exclusively on ed reformers for public education policy is like designing Social Security based on advice from people who sell private retirement accounts. It’s biased. At the very least add some people from outside this echo chamber.
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Nina Rees
4h
Listen to
Edwonkmom
and
MichaelPetrilli
break down the harmful proposed Charter School Program regulations from
usedgov
that will fundamentally damage educational opportunities for students and families across the country
Listen to echo chamber members promote and market charter schools with no dissenting or unbiased views ever presented, in another “ed reform echo chamber only” event.
Rah rah for charter schools! Open as many as possible as quickly as possible! All public schools are failing and all charter schools are wildly successful! Oh, and remember how we told the public for 20 years that we didn’t support for-profit charter schools? We didn’t mean a word of it. For-profit, non profit, doesn’t matter. As long as they’re not “public schools” we cheerlead them.
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The Network for Public Education has a letter that can be signed and sent to the Department of Ed. concerning for-profit charter schools.
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