[zaga_fan]

There's a lot of confusion on charters....

In Louisville or Lex rules are different. In all areas outside of Fayette and Jeff Counties - the Local School Board as the final and only say on whether a charter school can open. And even if that was given, the SEEK money wouldn't be enough to run the school. The Charter school won't have a "district" and thus a tax base. You all really make way too much of the charter thing. It's a non thing outside of Fayette and Jeff counties....

I literally just posted information from the Kentucky Department of Education contrary to the bolded.

Again, I'm not saying Cordia is going to become a charter school, but I am the only one quoting specifics here instead of unsupported generalities. SEEK funding alone won't run a school, but Cordia is a privately owned school leased by the local school system. They cannot afford to be a private school on their own, so there is a public/private partnership that allows that school to function the way it does. Evidently they give scholarships to every student going to college and provide some extra benefits for students (that got them pinged by the KHSAA) with the money they have freed up from the partnership. I would imagine the Lotts Creek Community School's resources coupled with SEEK funding would go a long way toward sustaining a school. Using Knott County's SEEK funding rate ($5777 per pupil) and Cordia's enrollment numbers (255- but the number could be dated), you're looking at around $1.5M.

For a further look into Cordia's desire to become a charter school you can scroll to just before the middle of this episode from the UPROXX docuseries. https://uproxx.com/shows/us-against-the-...sode-five/

Alice Whitaker also says the school is aiming to become a charter in a radio interview here just past the 3:50 mark
https://soundcloud.com/wymt-television/a...part-2-mp3

I'm no legal expert nor do I have any ties to Cordia or the Knott County BOE... but I'm trying to put together information we have and look at the legislation.
But please... someone point out of I've misconstrued something or overlooked something