Ohio charter school announces abrupt shutdown due to 'insurmountable financial' woes

After announcing it would beryllium closing astatine the extremity of this schoolhouse year, a struggling Cincinnati charter schoolhouse volition alternatively unopen down adjacent week.

The Dohn Community High School Board of Directors released a connection Friday, saying the schoolhouse volition adjacent connected Monday owed to "insurmountable fiscal challenges stemming from the erstwhile schoolhouse year."

The charter schoolhouse serves mostly Black students who person behavioral problems, were expelled from different nationalist schools oregon are different connected their past accidental to get a precocious schoolhouse diploma. The committee agreed during an exigency gathering March 7 to merchantability its 2 buildings to Performance Academies, a Columbus-based charter schoolhouse with a location successful Mount Healthy, Dohn's lawyer, Adam Brown, antecedently told The Enquirer. The thought was to usage that wealth to screen the remainder of the schoolhouse year, earlier shuttering Dohn.

"Upon assuming leadership, the existent medication took each measures to effort to stabilize finances, restructure operations, and support the highest prime of acquisition for our students," Friday's connection reads. "Unfortunately, contempt these efforts, the fiscal burdens from the anterior schoolhouse twelvemonth person proven excessively large to prolong operations."

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Interim Superintendent Bill Geraghty added successful the release: “Despite our champion efforts to flooded fiscal challenges, we person exhausted each viable options to support the schoolhouse open.”

School enactment is moving to assistance students and families successful transitioning to caller schools and to supply enactment for staff, the connection said. As for seniors who are acceptable to postgraduate this spring, they volition person peculiar attraction to guarantee they person opportunities to implicit their education.

Further details regarding pupil placement and closure logistics volition beryllium shared successful the coming days, according to the statement.

Dohn Community High School was founded successful 2001 by section pedagogue Kate Bower arsenic a recovery-focused precocious schoolhouse for students struggling with addiction, according to the statement. It was named aft her sponsor, Blanche Dohn. "The schoolhouse grew into a captious assets for the Cincinnati community," and yet began serving teen mothers, big learners, and vocation and method acquisition students.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio charter schoolhouse successful fiscal occupation announces abrupt shutdown