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Westport holds on to state money.
Byline: Lynn Franey
Jun. 7--Nine months after the Westport charter school closed, its board still has taxpayer money originally received from Missouri to educate charter school students.
But Westport Community Secondary Schools Inc. has not held classes since the Kansas City School District regained control in September.
It is unclear how much money the nonprofit organization has left over from five years of running the charter school or what the board is doing with the money.
Westport's board vice president, Curtis Massood, said last week that he would not discuss the organization's finances, because Westport was involved in several multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Earlier this spring he had said the board had more than $1 million on hand.
The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is not monitoring what the Westport board is doing with the public money. Neither is the Missouri attorney general's office. Missouri's charter school law does not…
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