Tribune Editorial: When charter schools fail, children go down with them
As another charter school hits the cash-flow rocks, the people who oversee charters are asking for more power.History doesn’t argue for that.Treeside Charter School in Provo is deep in debt, including $180,000 owed to the state of Utah, and it has filed for bankruptcy protection. School officials hope to reorganize. For now, its 433 students still have a place to go. But with more than 20 creditors and a debt that could run more than $1 million, survival is hardly a sure thing.It comes thr
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