Seven TX charter schools that lost charter are still open for business.

[madfloridian]

Crossposted in General Discussion for more visibility.

But according to this article from the NY Times Texas Tribune section, it doesn't bother the school administrators and most of the parents don't seem to know.

With all the cries for accountability going around lately, one would think we would hear a little outcry over this situation.

There is even still a banner at the entrance of one telling of their "highest academic distinction."

Public Charter Schools That Failed to Meet Texas Standards Are Still Operating

FARMERS BRANCH, Tex. — One recent 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, the students were not supposed to be there at all.

In June, the 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 district.

They had not even informed the parents.

Parents waiting to pick up their children that afternoon said the school had not informed them that the state had revoked its charter. They were not aware of the risk that credits might not transfer to other public schools.

[Igel]

1. That happens.

Nobody closes them sometimes. Often the credits are still accepted so it doesn't really matter. It doesn't have to be charters.

North Forest lost its accreditation. It was a public school district that many continued to defend, even though it had no authority to issue diplomas or credits for a while. It fought to resist dissolution, but finally the TEA managed to dispose of it. It's part of the Houston ISD now.

Not much of an outcry over North Forest's issuing credits that might not be accepted elsewhere or issue diplomas that no college or university needed to honor.

[madfloridian]

2. In other words...

who cares?