Skyline received $3.8 million in state funding last year.
School leaders appealed the termination decision, but the guild noted that the school’s executive director - Abdirahman Abdulle - did not show up to make a case for keeping the school open, nor did any parents or other staff members.
“No information was shared to counter or dispute the fact that SMSA, while under its current contract, and throughout its years of operation, has failed to deliver on the primary purpose of charter schools, which is to improve the learning, achievement and success of its students,” Zacchini said in the letter.
School leaders did not respond to requests for comment from the Minnesota Star Tribune. The school has refused to provide records involving its contract status since January, when the Star Tribune first asked for any letters of concern from its nonprofit authorizer, which oversees the school on the state’s behalf.
Instead, the newspaper obtained the records late last week from the Minnesota Department of Education.
The school was previously the subject of a whistleblower lawsuit by former business operations manager Fahmo Osman, who sued the school in 2022 for wrongful termination after she said she took concerns about various financial improprieties to her boss, executive director Abdulle.