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Tribune Editorial: Charter school accountability? We’re still hoping

Related Topics: Utah, Utah State Legislature

We’ve been here before. A charter school dies in a fiery crash, and Utah leaders decide charters need a closer watch.

It’s been going on since at least 2010, when a legislative audit found multiple weaknesses in the financial oversight of charters.

Improvements were made then, but by 2013 the state decided it needed to create reports for every charter, which included an evaluation of their finances. That was supposed to give charter school overseers a baseline to judge financial viability.

But here we are, and the Utah Board of Education is appointing a task force to address weak financial oversight of charter schools.