LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A nonprofit group has submitted a charter school application to the Lafayette Parish School Board to open a career and technical high school in 2015.
The Advocate reports (https://bit.ly/1qs8Tj1 ) Kingdom Builder Community Development Corp. has proposed a high school for grades 9-12 in Lafayette Parish that provides students the opportunity to earn industry-based certification in high-demand, high-wage fields.
The concept of the school - Kingdom Collegiate Academy of Excellence - appears to be in line with the Louisiana Department of Education’s emphasis on “Jump Start,” a statewide revamp of career and technical education in high schools.
“Our goal is that every graduating student has a marketable skill to meet the demands of a high-tech, competitive, global economy,” the applicants wrote in their application.
In response to questions about the proposed school, Aleashia Clarkston, the nonprofit’s chief executive officer, provided a copy of the charter school application.
The deadline for interested groups to submit charter school applications for the School Board’s consideration this year was March 7.
The school district is negotiating a contract with New Millennium Education, a Baton Rouge consulting firm, to review the charter school application, present its findings to the board and review the district’s charter review policies at an estimated cost of $7,500, said Tom Spencer, the school district’s accountability specialist.
The board could make a decision on the application by June 5 to allow time for applicants who are rejected by local boards time to meet a June 12 deadline to appeal to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The single application to open one school is in contrast to last year when the board received two applications to open a total of five schools in the parish within the next four years.
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Information from: The Advocate, https://theadvocate.com
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