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Senate Education Committee advances AB 84 to tighten charter-school audits and oversight
Summary
AB 84, introduced by an Assemblymember, would standardize audits, strengthen authorizer responsibilities and add new safeguards aimed at preventing fraud at non–classroom-based charter schools after recent multi‑million‑dollar scandals.
Assemblymember Marisucci introduced Assembly Bill 84 to the Senate Education Committee, saying the bill "strengthens charter school oversight and accountability" and aims to "crack down on the documented cases of charter schools, especially the non‑classroom based charter schools engaging in fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars to enrich bad actor charter school operators."
The bill responds to a string of high‑profile cases that the author said revealed systemic weaknesses in oversight. The presentation cited the A3 charter case, in which operators were criminally convicted after prosecutors found schemes that the author described as diverting “over $400,000,000” in public K‑12 funds, and a recent state auditor report finding that Highlands Community Charter Schools wrongfully received “over $180,000,000”…
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