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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly don’t have strong opinions on the charter model as policy over all, but according to the theory, this is what’s SUPPOSED to happen. The authorizing board is supposed go approve a bunch of schools and close the ones that don’t perform. The intention was never really to “support” them. That’s what school districts do. Charters are supposed to sink or swim. The timing sucks but I think a purist would say that that’s on the school, not the board. The board has to wait for them to be insolvent or whatever the conditions are to close it. They can’t declare it dead when it’s not quite dead yet. [/quote]

They missed payroll, lapsed insurance coverage, missed mortgage/rent payments and missed PCSB-required financial targets. At what point, in your opinion, would it be appropriate for the school to be closed by the authorizer? Instead, after years of missing PCSB-required targets and with payroll and insurance issues before the end of the last school year, they were put on a plan this summer that they were unlikely to be able to meet even when the plan was drafted.[/quote]

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