The Ohio Department of Education sent letters to administrators from Cleveland’s Villaview Community School, Imagine Cleveland Academy, and Cleveland Community School, along with Canton’s Imagine on Superior Academy, letting them know the decision came down after state officials determined the schools weren’t meeting the required level of student performance.
“We did our own evaluations of each of those schools and determined that these four schools were not meeting student performance standards that they set down in their own contracts,” ODE spokesperson John Charlton told our partners at WKSU. “And also that there were some violations of state and federal law regarding services provided to special education students.”
The schools were each sponsored by the now-defunct Portage County Educational Service Center.
(Read more at NPR)