Jamie's House Charter School was a 6-12 state charter school in unincorporated northern Harris County, Texas.[1][2]
History
editThe Texas Education Agency (TEA) revoked accreditation on December 28, 2013 due to poor financial and/or academic performance ratings.[3]
Teacher incident
editIn May 2010, a video of a teacher attacking a student was released to the public.[4] The video, captured on April 29, 2010 shows the teacher dragging a 13-year-old male student across the floor before hitting the student.[2] The teacher in the video, Sheri Lynn Davis (who did not have a teaching certificate), was fired and arrested. Gabriel Hahn Moseley, another teacher who witnessed the event but did not intervene, was also fired.[5] The mother of the child filed a lawsuit against the teacher. The Texas Education Agency sent investigators to the school to conduct an investigation.[6] The superintendent and the principal of the school, Ollie Hilliard and David Jones, were charged with failure to report child abuse, a misdemeanor. Davis was charged with felony injury, and Moseley was given misdemeanor charges.[5] Davis pleaded "no contest." She received a five-year probation sentence and an order that she cannot work at a school during her probationary period. In June 2011, Jones and Hilliard were acquitted of the charges against them.[7]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Jamie's House Charter School." Greatschools.net. Retrieved on May 12, 2010.
- ^ a b Mellon, Ericka. "Texas law on charter schools has big loophole." Houston Chronicle. May 12, 2010. Retrieved on May 13, 2010.
- ^ Mosier, Jeff and Holly K. Hacker. "Texas law that speeds shutdown of troubled charter schools is put to the test ." The Dallas Morning News. July 28, 2014. Retrieved on June 4, 2016.
- ^ MacDonald, Sally. "More Charter School Fight Video Released." KRIV. Tuesday May 11, 2010. Retrieved on May 12, 2010.
- ^ a b Radcliffe, Jennifer. "Charges in Jamie's House case criticized." Houston Chronicle. June 24, 2010. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
- ^ Mellon, Ericka. "Lawsuit filed over student's beating." Houston Chronicle. May 14, 2010. Retrieved on May 14, 2010.
- ^ Tolson, Mike. "Houston charter principal acquitted in beating incident." Houston Chronicle. June 24, 2011. Retrieved on July 17, 2011.
External links
edit- Mellon, Ericka. "Video evidence gets teacher fired." Houston Chronicle. May 11, 2010.