Tag Archives: Charter school

State Dept. Notified CIA, National Security Council About Suspicious Charter School Visas

August 12, 2014

The U.S. State Department raised serious and repeated concerns about Turkish charter schools in America, sending cables to the CIA, Secretary of Defense and the President’s National Security Council. Special attention was paid to the large number of Turkish nationals with questionable credentials seeking visas to teach at schools such as Ohio’s Horizon Science Academies, which are linked to a controversial Islamic faith leader.

Carney Responds To New Revelations In Horizon Charter Case

July 28, 2014

Former Student Reveals He Was Paid To Alter State Tests

COLUMBUS – New allegations concerning the Dayton Horizon Science Academy in a report aired on WHIO-TV Friday night and in a Dayton Daily News story on Sunday. Both reports featured testimony of a graduate at Dayton Horizon Science Academy. Hakkimte Sun, a former student of Dayton Horizon Science Academy, told reporters he was paid by administrators to fill in answers on hundreds of State standardized tests.

Horizon Memo Warns of 4 Potential Lawsuits, Contradicts Management Company’s Rosy Press Release After School Board Hearing

July 17, 2014

Explosive Memo from Dayton Charter Tells of School Violence, “Condoms” in hallways

COLUMBUS – A top official at the embattled Horizon Science Academy in Dayton wrote a 2014 memo describing “condoms in the hall,” sex in the in-school suspension room and teachers who “watch movies all the time.”

Cheating and sex scandals expose weak charter school oversight

July 15, 2014

COLUMBUS — Just weeks after documents surfaced showing Ohio’s top education officials covered up apparent charter school cheating, officials at the same school did not tell parents that their kids were caught having oral sex at a school function, a teacher told the Ohio State Board of Education.

John Patrick Carney Travels Southwest Ohio to Discuss Public Money Lost to Failing Charter Schools

July 14, 2014

CINCINNATI – Today, Auditor of State candidate and State Representative John Patrick Carney joined southwest Ohio leaders to voice concerns about local public tax dollars being lost to failing charter schools in Hamilton and Butler Counties.

The most recent Ohio Department of Education report card data shows thousands of dollars in school funding are being diverted from highly ranked public schools to lower ranked or failing charter schools.

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