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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 17, 2014, 05:06 PM Nov 2014

Despite State Order, Charter Schools Stay Open

FARMERS BRANCH — On a recent Wednesday morning, Branch Park Academy looked like any other bustling suburban middle school.

Beyond a packed parking lot, a banner hanging near the entrance boasted that the school had earned the “highest academic distinction” from the Texas Education Agency. Inside, students’ voices drifted from their classrooms.

By law, those students were not supposed to be there at all.

In June, the state education agency revoked the charter of the Honors Academy Charter School District, which runs Branch Park Academy and six other schools. While some individual campuses, like Branch Park, had met state academic standards, Honors had failed to do so over all for three consecutive years, meaning that, under a 2013 law, it could no longer operate as a public school.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2014/11/17/despite-state-order-charter-school-stays-open/

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Despite State Order, Charter Schools Stay Open (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2014 OP
Maybe we need to organize a phone Ilsa Nov 2014 #1

Ilsa

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1. Maybe we need to organize a phone
Mon Nov 17, 2014, 05:32 PM
Nov 2014

Call committee and ask them every day why they havent shut down and transferred their students.

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