It's over: no Gloucester charter

The Commissioner of Education has just pulled the plug on the Gloucester charter school:

"I am deeply concerned that the GCACS Board of Trustees has failed to manage the opening of the school effectively and in compliance with state law," Chester wrote. "The Office of the Attorney General, at the request of the Inspector General, examined and this week concluded that the procurement processes employed by GCACS to secure the Cape Ann Medical Office Building in Gloucester and the temporary modular structures on that site were in violation of state statute.

"The school's repeated delays in opening, when coupled with the recent findings of the Attorney General's Office and allegations about the school's actions ... leave me with no confidence that the GCACS board can satisfy its obligations under state law and under its own charter before the charter expires on Friday, Sept. 24.

As a result," Chester wrote, "I no longer believe that GCACS is viable."

One assumes that this will mean the end of the lawsuit, as well.