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Board approves accounts payable after discussion highlighting concerns about cyber charter spending
Summary
Board approved accounts payable. During discussion, a board member criticized cyber charter schools' use of public dollars and cited examples alleging large expenditures by Commonwealth Charter Academy; the accounts payable motion passed by voice vote.
The board moved to approve accounts payable and, after brief discussion, approved payment of the bills by voice vote. During the discussion a member raised concerns about cyber charter schools and their use of public funds, citing examples obtained through public records requests that alleged large expenditures by the Commonwealth Charter Academy.
"My vote does not reflect any support for cyber charter schools in any way because they do not they take public money, and they're not accountable for any of the success, which we are accountable for providing our students," a board member said. The same speaker later summarized reporting that described invoices including an itemized purchase of Phillies tickets and larger monthly payments listed on the payables list; the board then approved the accounts payable motion.
