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The Anton Group, a St. Paul–based accounting firm, provided services to one in five Minnesota charter schools in 2022, but dissolved in wake of the alleged fraud. Neal Thao, the CEO of Noble Academy, said charter schools should “look at their accounts very carefully.”
JJ Legacy School in north Minneapolis says it stopped paying rent in a last-ditch effort to force its landlord, Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, to make repairs. The rental dispute reveals holes in state law.
Perhaps most noticeable for students and parents are the four days that school leaders agreed to cut from the school year itself.
By LYDIA LIPPMAN