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Despite a 6 hour meeting where Mike Morley President of scandalous American Charter Development threatened with lawsuits if Woodland Preparatory is not given YET another chance the board came back after a few weeks deliberation and decided to SHUT IT DOWN.
Some of the interesting things out of the 6 hour conference meeting were that first of all Woodland Preparatory's Attorney Nash Campbell is over his head. Campbell tried to lay the lack of interest in the school with the town being prejudice but couldn't get anyone to testify about his claim, his 1 piece of proof was a Facebook posting about "Muslims" and Soner Tarim. Soner Tarim is MIA (missing in action) and more than likely will sue Woodland Preparatory as he is Lead Academy for breach of contract.
Mike Morley of ACD tried to establish he was experienced at taking over failing schools, but the truth is every school has taken over is riddled with scandals - selling the school back and forth among dozens of non-profits until they exhaust as much funds out of it. He introduced "Angela" as his fundraising expert but you would never guess that by the horrific financial shape the schools in North Carolina are in or Angela's bankruptcy. They had been given 1 extension that ran out this month, after 18 months of failure to open a school they would have had to start all over with a new charter school application.
Mike Morley ..... its very simple, your 1 room fake school isn't necessary in Washington county. Woodland had no students signed up and no community support. Its the wrong school in the wrong area, you can choose to file a lawsuit - if Nash was honest he would tell you to not waste hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal you will get the same results. Washington County public schools performs at a superior level it's population is 2,500 they are close community with thriving football and other activities. Get busy with your next EB5 Chinese Investor Visa Scam this one is not going to happen.
Read entire article here https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/for-the-first-time-alabama-shuts-down-a-charter-school.html
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| Groundbreaking December 4, 2018 Doomed before it started, half of this board dropped off |
A controversial public charter school in south Alabama met its end today, two months before opening.
The Alabama Public Charter School Commission, after deliberating for half an hour in executive session, voted to revoke Woodland Prep's charter for failing to meet conditions of pre-opening, lack of adherence to generally accepted financial standards, and failing to establish community support for the school.The vote came just less than two weeks after a hearing where representatives of the charter school laid out reasons why they have been unable to meet those conditions. The charter was initially approved in May 2018 and was scheduled to open in August. In February, commissioners voted to begin revocation proceedings.
This is the first charter revoked by the Commission. Alabama currently has four public charter schools in operation under the authority of the Commission.
Woodland Prep attorney Nash Campbell said, “It’s just a little disturbing that a large group of people that threaten businesses, threaten people--and also essentially used religious and racial elements--caused this school to never get off the ground.”
.In a statement, AEA President Sherry Tucker said, “AEA has consistently said we support good charter schools. Woodland Prep was not going to be a good charter school."
AEA Associate Executive Director Theron Stokes said the revocation was “a long time coming.”
“I hope this case serves as a warning shot to out-of-state corporate interests who may be looking to Alabama to make money in the charter school business” Stokes added. "Where charter schools have been the result of grassroots activism by Alabamians, we have supported and will support them. Where they are a money-grabbing scheme, AEA will stand against them. The votes today also confirm, now, the members of the Commission are going to hold them accountable.”
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