“Financial woes, doomed charter school.” The Press-Enterprise (CA), 3/11/2012
Temecula’s Context Middle School was billed as a small learning environment where teachers would emphasize how lessons related to the real world.When it opened in August, the charter school set out to focus on technology and the arts, with dozens of laptops for students and music lessons during and after school.Less than six months and more than $800,000 in taxpayer dollars later, Context was gone.It joins a list of 26 other Inland charter schools that have closed or had their charters revoked in the past 20 years. Charter schools, created to foster innovation and freed from some state rules, sometimes struggle with the administrative tasks and finances needed to run a campus, experts say...
