A northern Utah charter school that lost more than $1 million last year — the first year it was open — has been ordered to shut its doors.
The State Charter School Board voted unanimously this week to close Capstone Classical Academy in Pleasant View after a nearly four-hour hearing Monday and a long line of parents and teachers pleading to keep it open. In the end, members said the school was financially mismanaged, enrolled too few students and “about to hit a brick wall at 100 miles an hour.”
“The school is in so many ways magnificent,” said charter school board member Cynthia Philips.