Tel-Chai Nation

A positive development in dealing with the case of a corrupt Islamic school in Minnesota that engaged in taqqiya, taxpayer abuse, threats and witness intimidation. Now, as we learn, they've been told by the state to close:

A day after state officials e-mailed him shutdown instructions, the director of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) advised parents to find new schools for their children while holding out hope that, "by some miracle," the charter school can stay open.

Let's hope it's the other way around - that by a miracle, they'll close asap. This article tells more:

A Minnesota charter school that has been a magnet for Muslim students -- and controversy -- appears to be on the brink of closure after a judge's decision and a state ruling that left it unable to comply with a new state law. [...]

TiZA had also tried to switch authorizers, but the state denied the request shortly before midnight on Wednesday.

In her denial, Cassellius said the school's would-be overseer, Novation Education Opportunities, had shown a "lack of candor," in part by not disclosing apparent conflicts of interest with the school.

She said that TiZA parents have "expressed concern about the future of their school in light of misinformation the TiZA administration had provided them about conflicts of interest between the school's administration and other entities."

Among other problems, Novation also lacked an adequate plan for resolving concerns about the school raised by Islamic Relief, she wrote.

Many of those issues were uncovered by the ACLU's lawsuit. Among the concerns listed by Cassellius: A lack of transparency in TiZA's governance, conflicts of interest, an Arabic curriculum with sectarian content and the submission of unauthorized documents about the school to the state.

There was a report earlier about forged signatures involved too.

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