Prime Prep Academy ordered to release documents to The News
The Texas attorney general’s office has intervened to force Prime Prep Academy to release public documents it has withheld from The Dallas Morning News for months. The troubled charter school had 10...
View ArticleConnecticut: Is State's New Transparency Law For Charter Managers Strong Enough?
After last year's debacle involving the Hartford-based Jumoke Academy charter school operation, many legislators arrived at the Capitol this year on a mission to improve the control and regulation of...
View ArticleCoalition urges Council to expand transparency of DC charter schools
DC Open Government Coalition Legal Committee co-chair Fritz Mulhauser testified Wednesday in favor of legislation that would require more openness in charter schools' business dealings, but stressed...
View ArticleReport: Charter school budgets are a ‘black hole’ of public information
The nation's charter schools largely are created, overseen and policed by pro-charter advocates, resulting in "an epidemic of fraud, waste, and mismanagement that would not be tolerated in...
View ArticleTask force meetings on D.C. charter and regular schools will be public
D.C. Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles plans to open up meetings to the public for a task force that is being created to improve planning between the District’s traditional and charter...
View ArticleD.C. Transparency Watch: Open government office scores victory
A D.C. government task force of officials and citizens on education no longer plans to meet in secret for two years as it develops recommendations for the mayor on the visible and sensitive subject of...
View ArticleOhio treasurer asks charter schools to put finances online
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel is cajoling thousands of local governments, public universities, the Ohio pension systems and others to post their expenditures on his government transparency website,...
View ArticleDelaware lawmakers spar over charter school audit bills
Two Delaware lawmakers have proposed dueling bills over how charter schools are audited after a string of high-profile incidents in which charter leaders were caught misusing taxpayer funds. State...
View ArticleUtah lawmakers debate need for transparency into how tax funding is used by...
Moroni Alvarez attended traditional public school until fifth grade, when a move placed his family near Freedom Preparatory Academy in Provo. Now seven years later, the high school senior said he...
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