Closed Dallas charter school had been inflating attendance for years
Feb 6, 2008 12:01 PM
A Dallas charter school that abruptly closed
last week had been inflating its attendance as early as 2002 to get extra state
money. Phony attendance reports from the 2003-04 and the 2004-05 school years
resulted in a $750,000 debt to the Texas Education Agency, an amount that pushed
the Lynacre Academy charter school into bankruptcy.
Click here to read The Dallas Morning News article.
EARLIER: More than 70 students are without a school after a beleaguered charter
academy in southwest Dallas abruptly shut its doors with about $700,000
in debt. Lynacre Academy, which served mainly at-risk seventh- through
12th-graders, amassed its debt by overstating attendance figures the state used
to calculate payments to the school.
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Dallas Morning News article.
