The family of a former Atlanta Charter School Assistant Principal is fighting for someone to be held accountable for his death. Abnerd Joseph was shot and killed in a Chicago high-rise by a neighbor. Months later, no charges have been filed. Jay Charles remembers his brother always stood out. “When you would meet Abnerd you […]
A high-profile court case involving the creation of the nation’s first public religious charter school will have a new judge after the first one assigned was disqualified Friday by one of his Oklahoma County colleagues. In a brief hearing, Amy Palumbo, the county’s chief district judge for January, ruled District Judge Brent Dishman should be […]
The troubled Erie Rise Leadership Academy Charter School closed in June 2023 but has yet to complete its legally required financial dissolution. The Erie School District is continuing to press for a swift wind-up of the charter school’s financial affairs. As it waits, the district wants to identify and monitor Erie Rise’s remaining public funds […]
Jan. 12—MORGANTOWN — An effort to place a charter school in the former central office building of Monongalia County Schools hit a delay on Thursday. The Morgantown Planning Commission voted unanimously before a packed meeting chamber to table a request for Type III Development of Significant Impact Site Plan approval from Abdul Tarabishy on behalf […]
Jan. 12—MORGANTOWN — An effort to place a charter school in the former central office building of Monongalia County Schools hit a delay on Thursday. The Morgantown Planning Commission voted unanimously before a packed meeting chamber to table a request for Type III Development of Significant Impact Site Plan approval from Abdul Tarabishy on behalf […]
The conventional wisdom in some quarters is that the charter school movement has run its course. Abandoned by an increasingly progressive Democratic Party for being “neo-liberal” and by an increasingly populist Republican Party for being “technocratic,” charter schools (the story goes) are falling into the chasm that has opened up in the political center of […]
Jan. 2—A handful of charter changes, a successful Home Rule application leading to passage of a 1 % municipal sales tax and whole lot of Holland Avenue held Westover City Council’s attention in 2023. Charting the course While changes to a city’s foundational document are necessary from time to time, such actions are typically pretty […]
PARIS (AP) — A charter plane sequestered while carrying 303 Indians to Nicaragua was authorized Sunday to leave the French airport where it has been grounded for four days for a human trafficking investigation. A lawyer for the airline said the plane would take many of the stranded passengers back to India on Monday. Local […]
North Carolina has been one of the fastest-growing states in enrollment for private schools and charter schools since the COVID-19 pandemic. The state had the nation’s fifth-highest growth in private school enrollment since the 2019-20 school year, according to data released Tuesday by the Associated Press. During that same time period, North Carolina had the […]