D.C. charter officials seek to keep Options open

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D.C. charter school officials who previously had said they would seek to close Options Public Charter School for financial mismanagement said Thursday that they will now push to keep the school open.
Pearson said there are still several steps before the proposal can be put into action. First, the charter board must vote in favor of the plan, and then D.C. Superior Court Judge Craig Iscoe — who is overseeing the ongoing Options lawsuit, and to whom Kern reports — must also approve.

D.C. charter officials seek to keep Options open - The Washington Post

Now, this is from December:

Federal investigators are looking into whether former leaders of the District’s Options Public Charter School committed Medicaid fraud by, among other things, exaggerating the needs of its disabled students and paying students with gift cards to ride school buses, according to several people familiar with the criminal investigation.

Court documents filed in a related civil case, combined with numerous interviews, indicate that city officials and criminal investigators are examining the school’s busing program and other ways it obtained nearly $2 million in Medicaid reimbursements from June 2012 to June 2013. That included a sharp one-year increase in the number of Options students classified by the school as having the most intensive special education needs.

The school — which serves about 400 at-risk teens, most of whom have disabilities — was thrust into turmoil in October, when the D.C. attorney general filed a civil complaint alleging that three Options managers and others created a contracting scheme to divert more than $3 million from the school to two for-profit companies they founded. Those allegations spurred the criminal probe, according to people familiar with the case.

Options D.C. charter school?s Medicaid billing is at center of investigation - The Washington Post

It is absolutely necessary for them to have a plan for the kids that will be out.