For First Time, 'Hands Off' Ariz. Revokes Charter for School
The Arizona state school board pulled the plug last week on one of the state's 168 charter schools, marking the first time the state had shut down an operating school.
The board voted unanimously to revoke the charter it approved last year for Citizen 2000, a Phoenix K-8 charter school with a multicultural bent. Just prior to the board's Nov. 18 action, the school's owner filed for bankruptcy.
Lawndia White Venerable, Citizen 2000's founder and a former public school teacher and administrator, sent a letter home with students on Nov. 18 explaining that the school...
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