It failed to provide reports in timely fashion that might have revealed the looming financial crisis. Although the school contracted to teach up to 220 students, it took in 300 and for reasons still unclear the school system ponied up the additional money rather than objecting. When the overpayment became an issue, the school system substantially reduced the payment and the charter school could not fund the shortfall. Impact was handling troubled students who had bad attendance records in the public schools. To its credit, the charter school was able to get most of them to attend regularly and show progress.
School systems can simply replace lax administrators.
In the case of a charter school, that is not an option. So the school closed and students from Impact will go elsewhere. Other options for students are private schools and home schooling. Those, too, are expanding throughout Florida. We hope the public school system learned lessons from the experience.