Twin Cities charter school faces intense scrutiny

by Sarah Lemagie
Star Tribune
August 2, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/427/twin-cities-charter-school-faces-intense-scrutiny

Excerpt:

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) faces a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota over how the public school handles religion, and it could lose $1.4 million in public funding because of alleged teacher-licensure violations, the school estimates.

But the Minnesota Department of Education's investigation of TiZA has gone beyond those topics, according to records released last week by the state. Among other reviews, the state asked its testing contractor to analyze tests taken by students at the school. The test security company said in June that it found no evidence of wrongdoing, records indicate.

"The silver lining of this cloud is that it is absolutely clear that our test results are valid," said Asad Zaman, executive director of the K-8 school, which has campuses in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine.

The Education Department has visited the school more than a dozen times since January 2008, Zaman said, reviewing the school's special education services, after-school programming and more.

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