Philly board poised to move against 3 charters amid allegations of bias against Black-led schools

The Philadelphia school board Thursday night was poised to begin a process to pull the charters of three schools it cited for academic, operational, and financial flaws.

. That investigation is ongoing, according to the school board, and expected to be completed this fall. The three schools scheduled to be voted on Thursday have been operating under five-year charter agreements, the typical length approved by the district. As part of its evaluation process, the district had identified deficiencies with each.

The African American charter coalition said the district’s evaluations included inaccurate or incomplete information. Charter advocates suggested charter school officials in the past had promised a moratorium on non-renewals in 2021-22 because of the pandemic. But school board member Reginald Streater unequivocally said the board had never made that commitment.

The school had previously agreed to academic conditions that — if any went unmet — would require it to surrender its charter, Chao told board members Thursday.

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