A Cook County judge has ruled in favor of Urban Prep Academies, which had sued to maintain control of two charter campuses after Chicago Public Schools planned to take them over, amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct by UPA leadership.
A Cook County judge has ruled Chicago’s Board of Education violated a moratorium on school closures when itCook County Judge Anna Loftus on Saturday ruled in favor of Urban Prep Academies, which had sued to maintain control of the two charter campuses after Chicago Public Schools planned to take them over, amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct by UPA leadership.
Last October, the board voted unanimously against renewing the charters for the Urban Prep Academies campuses in Englewood and Bronzeville, with district officials citing “serious and unacceptable operational issues.”Urban Prep’s founder, Tim King, resigned his position last year amid allegations he sexually touched and groomed a minor Urban Prep student.
Boyd said Urban Prep “looks forward to working with the Johnson administration, the newly appointed Board of Education, and CPS administrators” to renew a “positive partnership.
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