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Epic Charter School has been hit with more than $10 million in penalties by Oklahoma’s State Department of Education.
The sanctions are largely due to accusations by the state of Epic violating a virtual charter school transparency law passed in 2019.
In a pair of letters to Epic’s One-on-One Charter School and Epic’s Blended Charter School, the district is accused of misreporting how it spends money to the state and overpaying for administrative costs.
The accusations are similar to ones made in State Auditor Cindy Byrd’s investigative audit from last year. The letters were first reported by the
Board addresses Epic’s finances By: Jennifer Palmer Oklahoma Watch April 15, 2021
An Epic Charter School administrative office building is seen on 122nd Street in northwest Oklahoma City. (Photo by Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch)
The board of the state’s largest online charter school system approved a new deal it hopes will settle a contract dispute with the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board.
The proposal, approved after a nearly seven-hour board meeting that concluded after midnight Tuesday, would make significant changes to the school’s financial procedures and relationship with its for-profit management company.
It’s intended to address issues raised by the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board, which on Oct. 13 voted to begin terminating the contract with the nonprofit Community Strategies Inc. to operate Epic One on One, its statewide virtual school. Community Strategies also contracts with Rose State College to operate a second charter school, E
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