A $1M PPP loan, a 500-acre property in dispute and a school in limbo: The Marlboro saga continues

[TexasTowelie]

The plot continues to thicken in Marlboro.

A month after Seth Andrew, the man who pledged to reinvent higher education in southern Vermont, was arrested by federal authorities in New York for allegedly stealing more than $200,000 from a network of charter schools he founded, little remains settled at the now-defunct Marlboro College.

It’s unclear what will become of Degrees of Freedom, the “higher education experience” that Democracy Builders, the nonprofit helmed by Andrew which bought the Marlboro campus last summer, promised to create.

The Marlboro Music Festival, which holds a 99-year lease with the campus, has filed suit and is asking a judge to sort out to whom it should be paying rent.

And no one appears able to account for the more than 200 people on payroll when Democracy Builders received a nearly $1 million Paycheck Protection Program loan from the federal government in spring 2020.

Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2021/05/28/a-1m-ppp-loan-a-500-acre-property-in-dispute-and-a-school-in-limbo-the-marlboro-saga-continues/

[ShazamIam]

1. Charter Schools, the conservative extremists desired path to eliminate 100% tax supported public

education for all and switch to a system that will only pay part of the costs, leaving out any children who's family can't pay the difference.

A nice little plan that would tax subsidize education for the middle and upper classes and exclude the children of the working and laboring classes.

*edits, typos.