Oakland’s American Indian charter schools respond to violation notice
Thursday, November 29th, 2012 at 4:56 pm in No Comments
photo of Ben Chavis, founder of American Indian Model Schools, by D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group
Thirteen binders of material from the American Indian Model Schools were delivered to the Oakland school district offices this week in response to the “notice of violation” the charter school organization received this fall from OUSD.
The prospect of OUSD shutting down three of the city’s top-scoring schools stems from a damning Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team investigation which cited numerous examples of self-dealing and conflicts of interest by the organization’s founder, Ben Chavis, and his wife (and former accountant for the organization), Marsha Amador.
The case has been turned over to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. So far, no word on what, if any, criminal charges will be filed.
The Oakland school district has not released the response from AIM Schools, but Troy Flint, the district’s
