Reblog from wdde.org: SBE Votes to Close Pencader Charter

                                                                                                           

 

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State Board of Education votes to close Pencader Charter

By Jon Hurdle

February 21, 2013

Troubled Pencader Charter High School will close at the end of this school year.
The State Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday afternoon to revoke the school’s charter.
The vote by the board comes after Department of Education’s Charter School Accountability Committee recommended in January that Pencader be shut down.
Pencader has been placed on “formal review” by the Department of Education four times since it opened in 2006, primarily for management and financial issues. It was most recently placed under review again last September.
Pencader’s board, staff, students and parents sought a reprieve from closure at two public meetings last week. They argued the installation of a reconstituted board of directors in November and other changes put the school on the right track.