Months after being ousted by a board he helped create, the co-founder of The Gathering Place is accusing the San Antonio charter school of multiple violations of federal and state laws, including the confinement of students as young as 5 in closets as a disciplinary measure. Former CEO and co-founder Ryan York laid out what he called a “deeply troubling pattern of noncompliance” and a “persistent disregard for legal standards” in a formal complaint filed June 21 with the Texas Education Agency.
San Antonio charter school SA Prep’s board fires founding CEO in meltdown meeting York, a former administrator of traditional and charter schools in Tennessee and California, opened The Gathering Place with Klekowicz in 2020 with a focus on art and social justice. It has a single campus on the Northwest Side and 450 students.
Proposal to build school under Randolph’s jets was perfectly legal At least nine special education teachers have resigned from The Gathering Place since January 2023. AIM Educate, a private contractor, has supplied the school with six directors of special education in the past three years, York said.
San Antonio’s newest charter schools are all over the map There are accusations that the school failed to teach social studies at any grade level, or science to students in kindergarten through second grade. The complaint alleges that the school failed to assign grades, offer a bilingual education program, provide services to students classified as English Language Learners, identify and serve gifted and talented students or meet minimum requirements for physical education.