The management company for a Mandarin charter school has been indicted for money laundering, grand theft and aggravated white collar crime.
San Jose Academy and Prep school leaders told Action News Jax the hundreds of students and faculty there have nothing to worry about.
The school’s website said it contracts with management company Newpoint Education Partners for back office operations, curriculum support and professional development for all its staff members.
None of the families Action News Jax talked to in the carpool line at San Jose Academy and Prep on Wednesday knew about the Escambia County indictments.
A source on the Duval County Public School Board forwarded Action News Jax an internal email from Superintendent Nikolai Vitti to the board members.
Vitti writes that DCPS performed an additional review of the school’s most recent financial documents, which did not expose any mishandlings.
The email said the chair of San Jose’s school board, which is separate from the DCPS school board, told the district the school is fiscally secure.
But families and staff are still left with a question.
“What’s going to happen to the school?” said Terry Womack, who was picking up her niece’s children from the school.
Action News Jax’s four calls to San Jose school board’s spokesman Gary Wheeler went unreturned.
Neither board chair Bonnie Arnold nor school director Amy Printy would agree to an interview.
“I feel like if we have nothing to worry about, then we would have known about it,” said Chucha Blaze, whose sister and cousins attend the school.
“If the school has commented that they’re sound, then I’m sure that they’re sound,” said a student’s mother, who did not want to be identified.
Vitti’s email said the district will continue to closely monitor the financial activity and operations at San Jose Academy and Prep.
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