One for five.
That’s what charter schools are doing in Kansas City lately. The KCK school board approved a charter school application for the Maurice R. Holman Academy of Excellence, but rejected the application for the Pleasant Green Academy of Excellence.
Also rejected: the Walnut Boulevard Institute of Learning Charter School, Freedom Academy and Meta-Center High School.
We favor allowing multiple authorities to authorize a charter school. Under Kansas law, only local school districts are allowed to oversee charter schools. We need not embrace a bad-faith model of school boards to recognize that there is an inherent conflict-of-interest here when an organization that gets its budget from enrollment numbers must decide whether to allow another organization, which would draw from its student body, to exist.
Source: Charter school proponent says board may have intentionally picked worse applicant, Kansas City Kansan, January 26.
