Charter School Claims State Can't Audit it

[The Straight Story]

Charter School Claims State Can't Audit it


ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) - A New York City charter school operator claims the state has no right to audit it, and asked a judge to stop the state comptroller from doing so.

Success Academy Charter Schools-NYC sued state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and his office and New York State, in Albany County Supreme Court.

Success Academy claims that a 2009 ruling by New York's highest court found the Legislature overstepped its bounds by passing legislation in 2005 that authorized the comptroller to audit charter schools.

Despite fine-tuning in 2010 that resurrected the audits, they're still unconstitutional, Success Academy claims.

Charter schools - public schools financed by taxpayer money but independent of local school districts - have been permitted in New York since 1998. They're designed to offer parents an alternative to local public schools.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/11/59266.htm

[PDJane]

1. If the taxpayer is funding it, yes, the state can audit.