Failed Idaho charters granted $2.3M

Over several years, more than $2.3 million in federal grants went to Idaho charter schools that later closed their doors. The grants came from $1.8 billion in federal programs designed to provide startup dollars for charter schools. And the U.S. Department of Education concedes the grant recipients include more than 400 failed charter schools. Idaho no longer receives money from the feds’ Charter Schools Program . That decision has nothing to do with the program’s failure rate. Instead, the State Department of Education found the feds’ rules too cumbersome