Charter schools group backs closure of charter school

The largest advocacy organization for charter schools in Georgia says the state did the right thing by ordering the closure of a charter school in Macon.

The Macon Charter Academy wasn’t living up to the promises in its charter, and the Georgia Board of Education did its job in ripping up the contract, the Georgia Charter Schools Association said Friday, a day after the unanimous vote by the state board.

The charter school foundered over discipline problems and financial issues and its board was "plagued by chaos," the pro-charter organization said. State observers once witnessed a child tossing a chair.