UNCOVERED: 4 - The Untold Story

Urban Prep’s fall from grace is a lesson for education leaders

Chicago and other cities where charter schools have proliferated have a lot to learn from the fall of Urban Prep due to fiscal mismanagement, a sexual misconduct investigation and other problems.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 6, 2023

It takes a village to run a school

I am the Illinois Network of Charter Schools Principal of the Year. But I didn’t win the award on my own. I belongs to the entire school.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 30, 2022

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #42

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Ballotpedia · Dec 21, 2022

Top Kentucky education official says he's unlikely to defend charter school law

Top Kentucky education official says he's unlikely to defend charter school law

WEKU · Sep 28, 2022

Amid Hillsdale fallout, Tenn. staffers fretted about optics

Tennessee state staffers watched intently this summer while local school officials voted down a contentious Hillsdale College-linked charter school

The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2022

Former White House aide Seth Andrew gets year in prison for stealing from NYC charter school

NEW YORK — A former education adviser to the Obama administration was sentenced to one year in prison Thursday for stealing more than $218,000 from the network of New York City charter schools he founded.

Tribune News Service · Jul 29, 2022

CPS cites Urban Prep, celebrated all-boys Chicago charter school, for ‘dismal’ financial management

The privately operated, publicly funded school has used cash advances and “predatory loans” for funding, city school officials say. Urban Prep leaders say its financial issues are resolved.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 1, 2022

North Carolina charter school’s skirt requirement violated female students’ rights, court rules

The school’s founder said the skirt requirement was part of the school’s ‘chivalry’ policy, which described females as being a ‘fragile vessel’

The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2022

Can a State-Funded Charter School Require Female Students to Wear Skirts?

Perhaps the real question is whether such a school is a state actor for purposes of Section 1983. The en banc Fourth Circuit says it is, so that a skirt requirement for girls is unlawful.

Reason · Jun 14, 2022

Oklahoma Governor Attacks School Choice With Trans Bathroom Panic Law

Charter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.

Reason · May 26, 2022