Are Florida Legislators Involved in Stalling Polk County’s At-Risk Charter Schools?
In what could turn out to be a bombshell story on Florida’s political battle over charter schools, Lakeland Ledger reporter Merissa Green writes that powerful Florida legislators may be stalling Polk counties desire to open its own charter schools to serve at-risk kids. Their reason is to get the business for one of their for-profit cronies:
BARTOW | Polk County School Board members were told this week there may be ulterior motives for the delay in permission to start the District’s at-risk charter schools.
Superintendent of Schools Sherrie Nickell said she was told by Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson there seems to be something “coloring the decision.”
Robinson was in Polk County on Monday to speak at the Tiger Bay of Polk County luncheon and at a Lakeland Chamber of Commerce forum at City Hall.