Another charter school bites the dust (how many tax dollars were lost?)

Sonja Isger at The Palm Beach Post has this about the Leadership West Academy, another failed charter school here in Palm Beach County:

     More than 100 students will be seeking a new school next year, after the Palm Beach County School Board voted to close the Leadership West Academy charter at school year’s end.
     The vote Wednesday pulled the plug on the small high school in the Westgate neighborhood that had struggled on the brink of closure for years. The school suffered from shrinking enrollment, financial woes and poor student achievement on standardized tests.
     About 130 students attend the school and 30 are expected to graduate by June.
     Officials with Leadership West, the county’s only F-rated high school when grades were released in December, said after the vote that they will consider appealing the decision to the state.

Recently, Andrew Marra at the Post wrote about the sad state of charter schools here in Palm Beach County. You can find a link to that story here. Also included in the previous link is the story about a charter school proposed in the City of Lake Worth by Ms. Margaret Menge that, thankfully, never made it past the planning stage. She went to Tallahassee to appeal that decision; the appeal was denied.