Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools’ authorizing district is seeking to revoke the school’s charter in the wake of a number of alleged violations of the law and of its charter agreement.
The Twin Rivers Unified School District board is set to send the charter school organization an intent to revoke its charters pending a vote at a public meeting Tuesday evening. District staff say that the charter school has failed to prove that it can sufficiently make up for a number of contractual and legal violations.
A state audit released in June detailed the charter school’s legal violations and found that the school received more than $180 million in inappropriate state funds, which the state is seeking to recoup from the charter. Also in June, overseer Twin Rivers Unified notified both schools that HCCTS operates that they were in violation of their charter agreements and the law…