Yesterday’s Cincinnati Enquirer featured an article on an FBI raid on one of our local schools that is part of a 19 school investigation.
Horizon Science Academy Cincinnati and its management company Concept Schools, Inc. is being investigated for improper relations with technology vendors.
According to the Enquirer:
The court-ordered search warrant and a log of evidence seized in the June 4 raid in Bond Hill focus on the federal E-rate program or the installation or upgrades of computer networks. The $2.3 billion federal E-rate program, administered by the Federal Communications Commission, provides discounts to help schools and libraries obtain affordable telecommunications and Internet access.This search comes on top of testimony from four former teachers at Horizon Science Academy in Dayton about sex games, unqualified teachers, test tampering, and potentially criminal misdeeds at the charter school.
This might make you angry at what could be seen (and is often portrayed) as an isolated incident.
The Enquirer article leaves out quite a bit of context, however. Most relevant to the story is the public and educational oversight from which Ohio charter schools are exempt.