State Orders Charter School In Cleburne To Shut Down

(Cleburne, TX) — The Texas Education Agency is giving a Cleburne charter school a week to close its doors.

State leaders say Kauffman Leadership Academy is failing both academically and financially. The four-year-old academy has about 100 students. On Wednesday evening, Heather Mauze, the state director of charter schools, met with students’ parents. Mauze said nearly a dozen teachers’ paychecks had bounced, which the school’s leaders deny.

The agency told the academy’s leaders the IRS has frozen the school’s accounts.