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More scrutiny as charter schools look to expand
- 05-25-2010
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By Nicholas Confessore and Jennifer Medina/New York Times
During its first years of operation, the Niagara Charter School in Niagara Falls, N.Y., spent thousands of dollars on plane tickets, restaurant meals and alcohol, and more than $100,000 on no-bid consulting contracts. Yet the school’s teachers resorted to organizing a fund-raiser to buy playground equipment. When the Roosevelt Children’s Academy, a charter school in Long Island, fired its management company after paying it more than $1 million a year, it hired two of the school’s board members as new managers — and paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars. And in the Bronx, the Family Life Charter School pays $400,000 annually to rent classroom space from the Latino Pastoral Action Center, a “Christ-centered holistic ministry” led by the Rev. Raymond Rivera. Rev. Rivera also happens to be the school’s founder. (more...)
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