The Waco school district is one of the latest to partner with the Third Future charter network as a last-ditch effort to stave off state intervention.
Records obtained by KSAT Investigates show San Antonio ISD Superintendent Jaime Aquino continued taking district-funded cross-country trips as the district faced a $46 million budget deficit, school cuts and growing financial scrutiny.
The Waco school district is expected to be the latest to contract with the charter operator founded by Mike Miles, the state-appointed superintendent of Houston schools.
Third Future Schools will partner with the Edgewood Independent School District to operate Brentwood Middle School after the district’s school board approved the vote on Tuesday evening.
The San Antonio Independent School District is proposing to close Rhodes Middle School at the end of the current school year, a move that would bring the district’s total campus closures to 26 since 2016.
The Texas Education Agency found that checks mailed to Miles’ charter school network in Colorado were eventually deposited into the network’s Texas account.
A state lawmaker and Houston residents urge the Texas Education Agency to investigate whether the state-appointed superintendent improperly sent public funds to out-of-state charter schools.