It looks like we can now close the book on SPARC Academy.
A federal judge has thrown out SPARC's lawsuit alleging the State Board of Education didn't renew the school's charter because its students and management are predominantly African American. Click here for a prior post.
What may not have helped the Raleigh charter school's case is that its attorney didn't show up for the hearing. It had been rescheduled to that day at his request. A week later, the judge dismissed the case.
The state is now asking that SPARC reimburse its costs for having attended that meeting. Click here to read its request.
Click here to read SPARC's amended lawsuit.
Click here to read the state's memo asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed.
Click here to read the order dismissing the lawsuit.
Comments
Wait a minute...
Tue, 09/16/2008 - 08:37 — Anonymous (not verified)I thought charter schools were the answer to everything! Everything is better in a charter school, or so we are told. By all means, let's lift the charter cap so we can have more charter schools like SPARC leading the way for our children!
Remove the CAP or get rid of them all together
Tue, 09/16/2008 - 13:31 — Voice_of_Reason_SPARC was a failing school because it operated for so long because of political correctness. As a 100% minority school, it should of been a better alternative to traditional public schools. The results were worse not better. I am against any homogenized charter school, except those that meet special needs. The fact we have a CAP, denied another school that could of had positive results from opening.
But, that being said, the lack of availability of charters to the majority of those that want them is unfair. It is not a good use of taxpayer's money since it is discriminatory.