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CCAP Board President David Patterson and Board Treasurer Debi Deal participated in the State Controller’s Anti-Fraud Task Force to prevent and detect fraud in public schools, which released its report on September 25, 2024. Several news organizations reported on the...
EdSource CCAP co-founder and board president, David Patterson, discusses how recommendations in CCAP's Anti-Fraud Task Force report could correct weaknesses in California's public school funding system and help detect, prosecute, and deter future attempts by shady...
San Diego Union-Tribune Tom Hutton, Executive Director of California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP), discusses recommendations for detecting and preventing public school fraud in CCAP’s Anti-Fraud Task Force report, Protecting California Public Schools...
San Diego Union-Tribune Dehesa School District “exhibits some of the most extensive charter oversight seen in California from a small school district,” say experts, including CCAP Executive Director Tom Hutton, interviewed by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Dehesa...
San Diego Union-Tribune In the four years since the San Diego District Attorney’s Office indicted A3 charter operators of stealing $400 million in state education funds, lawmakers have done little to tighten regulations and oversight, said San Diego Deputy District...
Education Week Lawsuits are on the rise against charter schools throughout the country raising questions over religious-based charters, local vs. state oversight, and whether charter schools are public or private and therefore, not entitled to state funding. CCAP...
Los Angeles Times CCAP co-founder and board president, David Patterson, discussed the seriousness of charter schools closely following regulations and district authorizer oversight in an article concerning an Orange County, California, charter school that could...
The74 Op-ed Top district leaders in authorizing “do not consider themselves pro- or anti-charter; they simply want to perform their jobs as authorizers well, and they consider charter school students their district’s kids,” write Alex Medler, Melissa Brady and Tom...
