Marcus Garvey Leadership Charter School (Oklahoma)

“Charter school teacher accused of molesting student.” KOCO (OK), 2/26/2013

OKLAHOMA CITY —A teacher at a charter school in Oklahoma City has been accused of molesting a 14-year-old student, according to court documents.

Pascal Wayne Jones, 42, of Edmond, has been charged with 10 counts of forcible oral sodomy, five counts of rape by instrumentation and 10 counts of lewd acts with a child under 16 years old.

The girl told Oklahoma City police detectives that the molestation started in Nov. 2011 when Jones "touched her breasts" while she was a student at the Marcus Garvey Leadership Charter School located at 1537 NE 24th St.

The victim told detectives that she performed several sexual acts on Jones until May 2012.

During the course of the investigation, detectives said, Jones was arrested on suspicion of stalking the victim at her new high school.

According to court documents, the charter school's principal held a meeting with staff to discuss the allegations in 2012. Police also conducted a failure-to-protect investigation into the school...

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“Oklahoma City School Board votes to close charter school.” The Oklahoman (OK), 5/13/2013

... District administrators allege poor academics and financial mismanagement. An attorney for the school said that's not the case. Both sides called foul on the other's interpretation of test scores...

Hunt presented state testing numbers comparing Marcus Garvey to the other charter schools with similar demographics. Some numbers were similar, but others were drastically different...

Kwame Mumina, an attorney speaking on behalf of Marcus Garvey, said the statistics weren't fair...

School officials don't follow state law when it comes to tracking and paying for school expenses, said Jean Bostwick, a controller in the district finance department.

The school district was paying for meals at the school, but the school was also receiving federal funds for those same meals.

Instead of using the federal funds to pay the school district back, the school kept the money. When district officials pointed out the problem, the school eventually paid it all back. But it didn't have all $92,000 on hand.

Board member Phil Horning said that points to misspending...