” The Success Academy Board of Trustees failed to adequately monitor aspects of the finance affairs of SA and did not consistently follow the procedures for operation required by its bylaws”
Deasy's Defeat by Larry Sand, City Journal 14 November 2014.
Deasy undercut his successes with expensive, unforced errors. A wildly ambitious, $1.3 billion plan to put Apple iPads into the hands of every district student was a debacle. Last year’s rollout began amid confusion. Would the students be allowed to take the devices home? Who would be responsible for tablets that were lost or stolen? Many students breached their iPads’ security locks and used the devices for non-academic purposes. Deasy halted the program in August after e-mails revealed he had discussed a possible contract with Apple before the official bidding process began. The “MiSiS crisis” followed on the heels of the iPad scandal. The district launched an online school-information system that was nowhere near ready, resulting in thousands of students starting the school year without class schedules. The new system also couldn’t generate transcripts that seniors needed for college applications.
| School | Chartering Authority at Opening |
Chartering Authority at Closing | Year Opened |
Year Closed |
Revocation or Relinquished |
Reason | |
| 1 | High Road School and Alternative Learning Center PCS | BOE | BOE | Never Opened |
1996 | ||
| 2 | Marcus Garvey | BOE | BOE | 1996 | 1998 | Revoked | Management deficiencies |
| 3 | Young Technocrats | BOE | BOE | 1998 | 1999 | Revoked | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 4 | New Vistas | BOE | BOE | 1999 | 1999 | Revoked | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 5 | Richard Milburn | BOE | BOE | 1998 | 2002 | Revoked | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 6 | Techworld | BOE | BOE | 1998 | 2002 | Revoked | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 7 | Mechanical Industrial Technical PCS | BOE | BOE | Never Opened |
2003 | ||
| 8 | Auto Arts Academy PCS |
PCSB | PCSB | Never Opened |
2003 | Never Opened | |
| 9 | Arts Explorer PCS | BOE | BOE | Never Opened |
2004 | ||
| 10 | Village Learning Center |
BOE | BOE | 1998 | 2004 | Revoked | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 11 | World | BOE | BOE | 1998 | 2002 | Revoked | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 12 | Academy for Renewal in Education (ARE) | PCSB | PCSB | 1998 | 2003 | Relinquished | Voluntarily relinquished, due to issues surrounding effectiveness of special education program |
| 13 | Jos-Arz | BOE | BOE | 2000 | 2006 | Relinquished | Voluntarily surrendered their charter after their five year review resulted in a 180 day probationary period |
| 14 | Colin L. Powell PCS – First Petition |
PCSB | PCSB | Never Opened |
2007 | ||
| 15 | SouthEast Academy | PCSB | PCSB | 1999 | 2005 | Revoked | Failed to meet academic and governance standards upon its five year review |
| 16 | New School for Enterprise and Development | PCSB | PCSB | 2000 | 2006 | Revoked | Failed to meet academic and governance standards upon its five year review |
| 17 | Sasha Bruce | PCSB | PCSB | 2000 | 2006 | Revoked | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 18 | Phillips Academy PCS |
PCSB | PCSB | Never Opened |
2007 | ||
| 19 | Hope Academy | PCSB | PCSB | 2007 | 2007 | Relinquished | Low enrollment and subsequent financial deficiencies |
| 20 | Washington Academy |
BOE | PCSB | 2005 | 2008 | Relinquished | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 21 | Tri Community | PCSB | PCSB | 2001 | 2007 | Relinquished | Voluntarily relinquished charter after PCSB initiated revocation process, due to academic and governance deficiencies |
| 22 | Colin L. Powell PCS – Second Petition |
PCSB | PCSB | Never Opened |
2008 | ||
| 23 | City Lights | BOE | PCSB | 2005 | 2009 | Relinquished | Financial and management deficiencies |
| 24 | Meld Evenstart (MEI) |
PCSB | PCSB | 2007 | 2009 | Revoked | Academic, governance and financial reasons |
| 25 | Barbara Jordan | BOE | PCSB | 2002 | 2009 | Relinquished | Low enrollment leading to financial insolvency |
| 26 | Academia Bilingue de la Communidad (ABC) | PCSB | PCSB | 2005 | 2009 | Relinquished | Low enrollment leading to financial insolvency |
| 27 | City Collegiate | PCSB | PCSB | 2006 | 2010 | Relinquished | Low enrollment |
| 28 | Young America Works |
BOE | PCSB | 2004 | 2010 | Revoked | Financial, academic and management deficiencies |
| 29 | KAMIT PCS | BOE | PCSB | 2000 | 2010 | Revoked | Academic reasons |
| 30 | ALTA PCS | PCSB | PCSB | 2005 | 2010 | Relinquished | Voluntarily relinquished charter |
| 31 | Children’s Studio PCS |
BOE | PCSB | 1996 | 2010 | Relinquished | Voluntarily relinquished charter |
| 32 | Thea Bowman Preparatory Academy PCS | PCSB | PCSB | 2008 | Summer 2011 |
Relinquished | Low enrollment |
| 33 | Nia Community Public Charter |
PCSB | PCSB | 2006 | Summer 2011 |
Revoked | Academic reasons |
| 34 | The School for Arts in Learning (SAIL) | PCSB | PCSB | 1998 | Summer 2011 |
Relinquished | Financial reasons |
| 35 | IDEAL PCS – High School | PCSB | PCSB | 1999 | 2011 | Closed high school program | Academic reasons |
| 36 | William E. DOAR PCS – high school program only | PCSB | PCSB | 2004 | 2011 | Closed high school program | Academic reasons |
| 37 | Community Academy PCS – Rand campus | BOE | PCSB | 2004 | 2012 | Closed the Rand campus |
Academic reasons |
| 38 | Septima Clark | PCSB | PCSB | 2006 | Summer 2013 |
Relinquished | Academic reasons – Merged with Achievement Prep |
| 39 | Howard Road Academy PCS – Pennsylvania Avenue | PCSB | PCSB | 2000 | 2013 | Closing MLK and Penn. Ave Campuses. LEA Eliminating grades 1-8 | Academic reasons |
| 40 | Howard Road Academy PCS – Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Middle School | PCSB | PCSB | 2000 | 2013 | Closing MLK and Penn. Ave Campuses. LEA Eliminating grades 1-8 | Academic reasons |
| 41 | Community Academy – middle school | BOE | PCSB | 2004 | 2013 | Closing the middle school | Academic reasons |
| 42 | IDEA – middle school | BOE | PCSB | 1998 | 2013 | Closing the middle school | Academic reasons |
| 43 | Imagine Southeast PCS | PCSB | PCSB | 2008 | 2014 | Relinquished | Academic reasons — Democracy Prep to operate |
| 44 | Maya Middle PCS – Middle School | PCSB | PCSB | 2008 | 2014 | Closing the middle school | |
| 45 | Arts and Technology PCS | PCSB | PCSB | 1999 | 2014 | Revoked | Academic reasons – KIPP DC to operate |
| 46 | Booker T Washington PCS | BOE | PCSB | 1999 | 2014 | Revoked | Academic reasons |
| 47 | Community Academy PCS – Amos III | BOE | PCSB | 1998 | 2014 | Closing the middle school | Academic reasons |
| 48 | Perry Street Preparatory – PCS (Upper School) | PCSB | PCSB | 1998 | 2015 | Closing the high school | Academic reasons |
| 49 | Hospitality High PCS | PCSB | PCSB | 1999 | 2015 | Relinquished | Academic reasons – DCPS to operate |
Fiscal Intelligence 