Two more charter schools close abruptly, sending parents and students scrambling

[RandiFan1290]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-two-more-charters-close-20140902,0,7785123.story

Two charter schools on Tuesday shut down just two weeks into their first school year, the latest in an unprecedented string of overnight closures among South Florida charter schools.

The shuttering of the Magnolia schools sent about 200 students scrambling to find new elementary and middle schools. The schools posted a letter on their website Monday, saying they had failed to secure a temporary facility after construction delays at their permanent site. The schools, which received nearly $400,000 in taxpayer dollars, had planned to operate in Sunrise.

Parents told the Sun Sentinel students were bused daily to the Young at Art children's museum in Davie since the first day of school on Aug. 18.

"It's horrible what happened," said John Wai, of Plantation, who had enrolled his third-grade son at the Magnolia Academy of the Arts. "[The school] had such great promises for us."

[Starry Messenger]

1. How can that be? Charter schools are perfect in every way!!!11

[Scuba]

2. The scam continues ...

[Nay]

4. YEP. Somebody got their construction money, and now it's on to the

next fleecing. No need to pretend to put up a school when you can take the money and run.

[underpants]

3. Public schools still have to be prepared, correct ?

I am asking. I mean this in the sense of - taxpayers are doubling paying for the students in question. Is that correct ?

[leftyohiolib]

5. probably feel the fbi coming

"It's horrible what happened," said John Wai, of Plantation, who had enrolled his third-grade son at the Magnolia Academy of the Arts. " had such great promises for us."
you should stayed with the public ed thanks to people like your public schools lost 400,000 dollars