A Charter School Note from Last Week

I missed this story last week about Learning Enterpise closing down:

The founder and CEO of the agency died a month ago and the operation has encountered major financial problems, according to sources. More than 400 students were served by Learning Enterprise schools at the start of this school year.

The schools included a seventh-through-12th-grade school for at-risk children that was funded on a contract basis with Milwaukee Public Schools; a school for high school students that was part of the state-funded voucher program; and a charter school authorized by the Milwaukee School Board that provided vocational programs for 11th- and 12th-grade students.

If the schools are permanently closed, they would become the fifth voucher school and the second MPS charter school to close in the last year. [. . .] MPS had paid Learning Enterprise more than $1.7 million so far this year under the contracts with the partnership school and the charter school. DPI had paid Learning Enterprise about $679,000 so far this year.

So now when I get those Learning Enterprise students in my class next week, where will the funding to support them come from?