Having to Defend Rejecting Charter Schools in Florida (Part 3)
From Orlando Sentinel reporter Lauren Roth:
Two school boards in Central Florida were faced with a similar dilemma this fall — either approve a charter school application that board members felt was lacking, or face a fight with the state.
Seminole County embraced the fight, filing suit against the state Board of Education and rejecting the applicant, a school that would be managed by Charter Schools USA.
Orange County, by contrast, grudgingly accept an application backed by charter management company Academica after being told by their lawyers that they had little chance to win an expected appeal by the company.
Both Seminole and Polk county schools filed suit in Leon County earlier this month, asking a