Jamie's House Charter School

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Jamie's House Charter School
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Jamie's House Charter School
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School type Charter school
Grades6-12

Jamie's House Charter School was a 6-12 state charter school in unincorporated northern Harris County, Texas. [1] [2]

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History

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) revoked accreditation on December 28, 2013 due to poor financial and/or academic performance ratings. [3]

Teacher incident

In 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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Jamie's House Charter School." Greatschools.net. Retrieved on May 12, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Mellon, Ericka. "Texas law on charter schools has big loophole." Houston Chronicle . May 12, 2010. Retrieved on May 13, 2010.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ MacDonald, Sally. "More Charter School Fight Video Released." KRIV . Tuesday May 11, 2010. Retrieved on May 12, 2010.
  5. 1 2 Radcliffe, Jennifer. "Charges in Jamie's House case criticized." Houston Chronicle . June 24, 2010. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.
  6. ↑ Mellon, Ericka. "Lawsuit filed over student's beating." Houston Chronicle . May 14, 2010. Retrieved on May 14, 2010.
  7. ↑ Tolson, Mike. "Houston charter principal acquitted in beating incident." Houston Chronicle . June 24, 2011. Retrieved on July 17, 2011.

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