A federal program awarded $7.7 million to charter schools in Michigan that never opened. That's according to a report from the Network for Public Education. MichiganRadio
A federal program awarded $7.7 million to charters schools in Michigan that never opened. That's according toA total of 257 charter schools in Michigan received money from the federal program. 72 of them never opened. No other state had that many unopened charter schools that received money from the Charter Schools Program.
Despite that, Michigan is moving ahead with the latest round of the federal program, which could send an additional $47 million to the state’s charter schools. In May, Ulbrich and others on the board voted to reject the criteria for the new round of grants through the Charter Schools Program. The money has already been appropriated, and charter schools can still get funds.“The most disturbing thing that I found from reviewing the documentation from these grants was that there really appeared to be no prohibition on conflicts of interest,” Ulbrich says.
State Superintendent Michael Rice told members of the State Board of Education at a meeting Tuesday that he’s asking the Michigan Department of Education to keep a closer eye on funding for the next round of grants.
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