Charter school probed over special-ed kids who might not exist

Schools investigat♌ors are probing a Bronx charter school for allegedly billing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars for n🃏onexistent special-education kids, The Post has learned.

The allegations against the South Bronx Classical Charter School were first raised by former employee Alexis Riley in a $1 million𒆙 lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

Hired early this year to work on grants and other projects, Riley soon uncovered that going back as far as 2006, the school had billed the Department of Education for three to f🐭ive special-ed students a year who either no longer attended the school or had yet to be enrolled, her suit contends.

Each nonexistent student would cost the city well over the baseline of $13,000 a year for kids who aren🦩’t special ed.

“Maybe they [school officials] w▨eren’t purposely doi൩ng it,” Riley told The Post yesterday. “But when I told them about it, they didn’t care.”

And then in June, she alleges, they fired her.

“Well, we know the complaints you have about the school,” Riley’s suit alleges executive director Lester Long 🦂explained.

Riley, 27, a Brooklyn lawyer, had also complaine⛄d to school brass when she saw that new students were being assessed via “plagiarized” state administered tes🦋ts, and that staffers sometimes withheld or delayed lunch as a punishment for bad behavior, the suit alleges.

School of⭕ficials did not return calls for comment. A spokeswoman for the city’s special commissioner of investigation said the office is probing the allegations.