«Wherever appropriate, the EFA will provide support to academy trusts experiencing financial difficulty but where
we find financial mismanagement or irregularities we will not hesitate to take swift action.
Not exact matches
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced on Thursday that his office has reached a settlement to appoint a new board of directors for the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, after the attorney general
found evidence of
financial mismanagement at the non-profit organization.
This lack of oversight laid the foundation for a recent report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), which
found some $ 200 million in «alleged and confirmed
financial fraud, waste, abuse, and
mismanagement» committed by charter schools around the country.
The report
found that 42 percent of charter schools close due to
financial reasons; 24 percent close due to
mismanagement; and 19 percent close as a result of poor academic results.
While
financial mismanagement and over-extension of credit can indeed lead to bankruptcy, we
found that in only 37 % of cases this was the sole reason for filing.
Today's settlement is a huge victory for those who have fought to preserve the mission that Cooper Union has advanced since its
founding a century and a half ago and a final repudiation of the failed administration whose
financial mismanagement, fomenting of division, and punitive governance laid Cooper low.
His autocratic style and
financial mismanagement led to his ouster in 1969 — the same year in which he
founded the League of Conservation Voters and Friends of the Earth.