[zaga_fan]

Some of Cordia's supporters made it sound that way, but I don't know why the General Assembly would do that. I think the idea is to tear down the public school system, plus some people who run charter schools could make some money.
This is from the Courier Journal as far as regulations:

▪*School boards or the Lexington or Louisville mayor must solicit and evaluate applications, give preference to applicants wanting to serve at-risk or special needs students, conduct the review and interview process for all applications, and approve or deny applications within 60 days of receiving them.

Well... here are a few other things I found while perusing the regulations.

https://education.ky.gov/CommOfEd/charts...chools.pdf

In subsection 2(a) it says a school in the bottom five percent academically (Cordia may be included in that) can petition to be a charter school if they have 60% of parent/guardian signatures.
Notice in subsection 2(b) - pertaining to schools in the top 95% - there is an additional requirement of a local school board vote. So it looks like poor performing schools have a provision to go charter without a vote from the school board.

The remaining subsections go on to say the conversion and operation will be governed by the state, will be run by a board of directors, maintain their own employees and hire new ones on their own and can use the existing assets at the school.

Could that be the part where Cordia can make this work?

Also, there is also this part of the legislation jammed in the portion pertaining to retirement for employees.

https://education.ky.gov/CommOfEd/charts...ements.pdf

"A local school board shall not harass, threaten, discipline, discharge, retaliate,
or in any manner discriminate against any district employee involved directly or indirectly with an application to establish a public charter school."

I may be reading too much into it, but it looks to me like I see a few carefully placed provisions that can help Cordia if they want to be a charter.

But there are also pretty strict requirements academically - it's odd they have a provision to let academically poor schools into a contract.