No state records exist regarding the quality of education offered to more than a dozen children at a school operated for five years by a Topeka couple accused of child abuse.
Unlike accredited public and private schools, the nonaccredited private school City Councilman Jonathan Schumm and his wife, Allison Schumm, operated — and others like it — don’t adhere to state standards for education. Home-schooled students also don’t take state assessment tests, so the state can’t track how students in such schools learn.