State audit blasts Hawai‘i charter school system

HONOLULU — Hawai‘i’s charter school system received a scathing report from the state auditor’s office Thursday. The Charter School Review Panel, which is the agency charged with overseeing charter schools, “has misinterpreted state law and minimized its role in the

HONOLULU — Hawai‘i’s charter school system received a scathing report from the state auditor’s office Thursday.

The Charter School Review Panel, which is the agency charged with overseeing charter schools, “has misinterpreted state law and minimized its role in the system’s accountability structure,” the report states in its summary. It adds that the panel has delegated too much of the monitoring and accountability to the boards of individual schools.

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