Audit Blasts Hawaii Charter School System

Katherine Poythress:

Hawaii's charter school system received a scathing report from the state auditor's office Thursday.

The Charter School Review Panel, which is the agency charged with overseeing charter schools, "has misinterpreted state law and minimized its role in the system's accountability structure," the report states in its summary. It adds that the panel has delegated too much of the monitoring and accountability to the boards of individual schools.

The auditor's two overarching findings were:

The Charter School Review Panel fails to hold charter schools accountable for student performance.
Charter school operations fail to comply with state law and principles of public accountability.

Most of the information in the report was not news to the officials who oversee the 32-school charter school system, or to members of the public following the numerous nepotism, ethics and other scandals at charter schools around the state.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 19, 2011 1:01 AM
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