In a 95-page ruling, an administrative law judge backed a decision by the Manatee County School Board to terminate a contract with a charter school that he said showed “gross financial mismanagement,” including failing to pay salaries and payroll taxes, getting cut off by food suppliers and facing a shutoff of water service.

Judge Robert Cohen rejected an appeal by Lincoln Memorial Academy, which began operating in the 2018-2019 school year as a charter school after conversion from a Manatee County-run middle school.

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