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D.C. Charter board moves to revoke charter for Community Academy

By Michael Alison Chandler December 16

The D.C. Public Charter School Board voted unanimously Monday night to initiate the process to revoke the charter for Dorothy I. Height Community Academy Public Charter School for fiscal mismanagement, after the founder was charged with diverting millions of dollars to a private management company for his own financial benefit.

A Superior Court judge in October ordered the school to stop payments to a company set up by the schools’ founder Kent Amos, because he believes the District has a strong likelihood of demonstrating in trial that the school overpaid Amos by about $1 million last year alone, in violation of District law.

A. Scott Bolden, an attorney for the school, urged the board not to take the “drastic” step and to consider the nearly 1,600 enrolled and their families who will be affected. He told the board that the judge’s ruling was a preliminary injunction that is being appealed.

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