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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are referring to the administration of the non-profit organization, not the current principal (who has been there for the current school year only).

There is no separate board for the charter school, so, it is being administered by the non-profit.  You can look on their website for information-- or lack thereof about the larger non-profit organization.  The current principal's boss is the CEO of Crossway Community.

I also want to add that many charter's have a CEO-type that is not an educator.  The CEO's lack of education/Montessori credentials is not that unusual or alarming in of itself.  Her job is to raise money and run the non-profit organization-- and in this case fund the Charter's pre-K students.[/quote]

which is where the problems arise

I wouldn't expect an engineer to be a partner in a law firm.  When everyone BUT educators start to run schools and systems, education falls apart.  Not even Starr has enough educational experience to give him credibility as an educational leader.  It's no longer about the child - but about the image and the politics driving that image.  So is it any wonder the principal was bullied by the CEO?

Money can be raised by a PTA - or a separate fundraising committee.  You don't need a CEO to do that job.  [/quote]

Ironically, they wouldn't allow a PTA to form.  And blocked parents' attempts to fundraise (cancelled events, wouldn't dispense fundraising information parents had proposed (again, blocked a PTA so parents couldn't organize on their own). For one and a half years they told us charter families not to worry our pretty little heads about school finances, they had robust fundraising.  Then we all got a letter the school was closing.[/quote]

sad

But I can tell you that it wasn't the principal's decision to implement these decisions.  She was bullied.[/quote]

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