Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Ousted CEO vows to re-open failed Entrepreneur High

Hans Plotseneder
It's only been a few days since Entrepreneur High closed its doors, but its former CEO is already promising to restart the school without the board that fired him in Christmas Eve.

You'll recall that this school's board chairman told the state that it only had $14 in the bank last week. The charter school advisory board then took the first steps toward revoking its charter. With that hanging over the school's head, chairman Robert Hillman shut down operations Friday.

In an email sent to the media in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Hans Peter Plotseneder -- also known as Dr. Plots -- insists that he is the only person who has the right to operate the school and lays out a plan to do so.

Plotseneder was fired Christmas Eve after a series of emergency board meetings in late December. Hillman wouldn't go into detail about what led up to the firing, but other school staff members said Plotseneder didn't do enough to take care of the school's students, leading them to withdraw from the school en masse.

Plotseneder's plan hinges on cutting Entrepreneur High's staff in half and relying on public money slated to arrive in February. He claims that he would receive $124,000 from the state and as much as $90,000 from the county.

Plotseneder then plans to receive $90,000 in grants, secure a bridge loan of $75,000, and sublease part of the building, an old Food Lion off Central Avenue. Ultimately, he wants to bring in a charter management organization to take over.

All that would certainly be difficult given that the remaining handful of students have transferred out of the school and that it faces forced closure in a matter of weeks.

The state Department of Public Instruction wasn't immediately able to say whether Entrepreneur High was still eligible to receive money from the state.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please rename the school to a name that the students will be able to pronounce.

Anonymous said...

How much money was wasted on this? Do failing/closing charters still get tax money? What happens to the students?

Anonymous said...

If you cant pronounce the name you shouldn't be able to enroll in the school. Entrepreneurship is what we need more of in our schools not communism.

Anonymous said...

I would like to request that the Alicia puts her name at the top of her posts instead of the bottom so that readers have a better chance of not accidently reading her opinions.

Just a suggestion.

Anonymous said...

How about scanning to the bottom of the post before reading the rest.

(Just a suggestion to the slow readers out there.)

-not Alicia

Wiley Coyote said...

I would like to request that the Alicia puts her name at the top of her posts instead of the bottom so that readers have a better chance of not accidently reading her opinions.

..opinions are like...... well, I'll say noses.....Everybody has one. Or two or three or.....

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