Written by Valarie Honeycutt-Spears of the Herald-Leader
The Kentucky Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously denied an appeal from the proposed River Cities Academy, the first group that wants to open a charter school in the state.
The board’s final order, read aloud during a meeting on the appeal, said that the Newport Independent School District Board “was legally barred” from approving the application and did not err in its decision because River Cities Academy failed to meet the requirements of state law.
It says the charter school group wrongly relied on public funding in its 5-year budget projections. The General Assembly has not approved a funding mechanism for charter schools.
(Cross-posted via the Kentucky Press News Service. Read the rest of the article at the Herald-Leader.)
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