Former charter admin faces 10 charges

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) - A former Muskegon County school administrator is accused of ripping off the state by lying about student counts.

On Thursday, the Michigan Attorney General's Office charged Barbara Stellard, a former director of WayPoint Academy charter school.

She faces seven counts of falsifying records, each a two-year felony. Prosecutors allege she inflated the number of students at the school, bringing in money to which the school was not entitled.

Stellard also faces two counts of obtaining between $1,000 and $20,000 by false pretenses, which is a five-year felony; as well as a count of common law offenses, a five-year felony.