My goal for this newsletter is to provide a regular plain-language summary of what has happened in the Oxford Street Education/Croft School bankruptcy, and to flag key deadlines and dates. This is the first issue after Oxford's June 5 filing.
Croft allowed to operate through June 12
The schools were allowed to stay open and finish the year. After the bankruptcy was filed, the trustee asked the court for permission to keep the Croft Schools running through the last day of the school year (June 12), and the court agreed. So nothing about the closing week of school changed because of the filing.
The rest of this issue walks through the dates families need to know and the early paperwork that's been filed.
Key dates & deadlines
July 14, 2026, 9:00 a.m. — Meeting of Creditors
August 14, 2026 — Deadline to file a Proof of Claim
Both explained below.
What got filed this week
After the initial filing on Friday, only a handful of preliminary documents have come in.
Keeping the schools open through June 12
The trustee asked the court for permission to keep the Croft Schools operating through the end of the year. The court gave an initial okay, held a short hearing Monday morning, and then signed off fully. The schools have been allowed to operate through the close of the school year.
Official notice mailed to families & other creditors
A formal notice of the Chapter 7 bankruptcy was mailed to everyone the school owes money to — and that includes families. You may have received one in the mail. It lays out the deadline for filing a Proof of Claim and the date for the Meeting of Creditors.
A few terms worth knowing:
A Meeting of Creditors is a required, early step in a Chapter 7 case where the person or company that filed for bankruptcy shows up and answers questions under oath. It's run by the bankruptcy trustee — not a judge, and there's no courtroom. The trustee's job is to check that the paperwork is accurate and to identify any assets that could be sold to pay back what's owed. Creditors (the people and businesses owed money) are invited and may attend and ask questions, but are not required to. These meetings are usually short and routine. The U.S. Department of Justice also has a plain-language page explaining what a Meeting of Creditors is.
A Proof of Claim is the form you file to say "the school owes me money, and here's how much." If you think you're owed something (for example: prepaid tuition or deposit money), that form is how you get in line. (I will provide more information about this process in a future email.) Nothing you need to do today.
Other filings
A few more routine items from the bankruptcy this week:
The amount Oxford is paying its attorney — $75,000.
A document confirming that Oxford voted to file for bankruptcy.
Lawyers for the Board of Managers and for a Croft landlord have now formally entered the case.
The trustee disclosed that his law firm had a prior relationship with JP Educational Collective Incorporated — a group of Jamaica Plain parents that had looked into purchasing the Jamaica Plain assets. That potential purchase never moved forward. (This was the separate parent group in JP focused on the future of the school.)
Key Links
You just read issue #2 of Croft Bankruptcy Updates. You can also browse the full archives of this newsletter.