The former CEO of Urban Prep Academies — a celebrated Chicago charter school network that specifically serves Black male teens — says in new court documents that he was forced to resign in July because of a “fundamentally flawed investigation” into sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Tim King, the founder of Urban Prep, is asking a Cook County judge to reverse Chicago Public Schools’ disciplinary measures, including substantiating an allegation of sexual abuse against him, making him ineligible for rehire and prohibiting him from entering any CPS property. The Aug. 30 legal filing names the Chicago Board of Education, the CPS Office of the Inspector General, Chief Title IX Officer Camie Pratt and Inspector General Will Fletcher as defendants.
CPS said it doesn’t comment on pending litigation. King’s attorney, Andy DeVooght, told the Tribune that the district’s actions have been devastating.
“Tim has spent 30 years working with thousands of young men, has had no issues in doing so, other than these wild accusations levied against him by this individual who, respectfully, is a troubled young man,” DeVooght said.
Urban Prep, which has campuses in Englewood, Bronzeville and the Loop, recently celebrated its 13th consecutive year of its entire senior class being accepted into a four-year college. King said he led Urban Prep from its founding in 2003 until April 2021, when he took a voluntary administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation by the CPS...
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