‘Abuse, Waste and Fraud’ at Hawaii’s Largest Charter School
Hawaii Technology Academy’s recently fired principal, Jeff Piontek, and his vice principal, Ana Matsumoto are under investigation for possibly misusing $100,000 in state funds.
Hawaii News Now broke the news of the investigation today.
It’s just the latest in a series of charter school controversies in Hawaii.K12, Inc., the private, for-profit company that owns the academy, was the subject of a recent New York Times investigation that indicated its virtual schools all over the country aren’t effective. (See our post about how HTA students perform.)
Read Katherine Poythress’ Ed Blog for more on the issue.
Posted by on 02/21/2012 at 1:31PM HST (2 months ago)
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