[EKUAlum05]

Truth be told the only areas in KY that a charter school would make sense financially and socially will be Louisville and Northern Kentucky.

Lexington schools are pretty solid on the whole and pretty well funded. Not saying a charter school wouldn't take hold in Lexington, but with LCA and LexCath as well as Sayre I actually think Lexington is in a pretty solid place in terms of school options.

Northern Kentucky by and large is solid as well, but a charter school could definitely make a whole lot of sense in the Newport, Bellevue, Dayton area because you have a lot of people wanting to move into the area for convenience to the city, but the schools are under funded and under perform. A well placed charter school in this area would be a huge success.

The other place that it would definitely make sense the most is Louisville, specifically the West End, Southern Side, and south of downtown. Louisville uses magnet schools which has helped, but there would be a lot of people who I could see taking advantage of a charter school in these areas who can't afford the private offerings. I could see multiple charters making sense in Louisville.

Bowling Green is pretty solid with the schools as is.

Paducah might make sense for a school... seems Tilghman is kind of the wild west right now, but at the same time McCracken County is a new school.

Ashland has good options already.

Could maybe see a Frankfort charter school have some traction.