Based on 2013 test scores, are the students who left the Recovery School District’s four failing schools in better academic environments than before? If they left Mays and Henderson, they generally are. But not if they left Abramson and Johnson.
Other states are pioneering different ways of bringing electoral control to charter school management. Would they work here?
The board oversees Home A. Plessy Community School.
"They talk to us like fifth-graders and we’re ninth-graders," said one student.
But the board didn't comply with state law when it failed to solicit public comment before two votes.
Factoring into the school board's decision: whether it will join a charter network.
Some charter leaders are wary of power shifts on an elected board. Others just don't like those in office now.
