When Prime Prep Academy shut down, another school inherited “anarchy” (Deion Sanders' school)

When Prime Prep Academy closed in January under a heap of debt and lawsuits, about 60 former students landed at another Dallas charter school two and a half miles away.

The results for Triple A Academy were academic problems, bad behavior and even “anarchy” that threaten the school’s future.

Triple A received the state’s lowest academic rating last month and said the Prime Prep chaos was largely to blame. This is Triple A’s second straight year of “improvement required.” A third would lead to the loss of its charter and its state funding.

“Those children had no choice in that school being closed,” said Leroy McClure, the founder of Triple A Academy (which serves 7th to 12th grade) and its sister school, Focus Learning Academy (pre-kindergarten to 6th). “They needed a school, so we were there to help them.”

Read more: http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/when-prime-prep-academy-shut-down-another-dallas-school-inherited-anarchy.html/

[font color=330099]The article also mentions that Deion Sanders has a new job as the head football coach at the school.[/font]