D.C. charter school may go bust

Published October 27, 2007 4:00am ET



A charter school whose leaders have been in the prosecution of a former top D.C. school official may be on its way out of business.

Young America Works Public Charter School was opened in 2004 thanks to lobbying by former Board of Education Charter School Executive Director Brenda Belton. Belton has since pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars and steering hundreds of thousands more in deals to her friends — including Brenda Williams, Young America’s founder, and Nadine Evans, Young America’s principal.

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