Woodland Prep Playing Legal Games by Larry Lee | Jan 17, 2020 | Charter Schools | Gang of Four Last August the Alabama Education Association filed suit in Washington County alleging that Sonar Tarim, the Texas education consultant working with Woodland Prep charter school falsified information submitted to the state charter school commission. The initial hearing on this suit is scheduled for Jan. 21 before Circuit Court Judge Gaines McCorquodale in Chatom. But given the charter’s track record of evasion and misrepresentation of the facts, it came as no surprise when lawyers for Woodland Prep filed a last-minute motion to “dismiss, re-set the hearing, and seal the proceedings.” In other words, they wanted to delay the start of the proceeding and then hide things from the public. An attorney told me that the effort to seal the proceedings in a civil action was highly unusual. Among other things, Woodland Prep’s contention is th...