Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Palm Beach County School Board Rejects Additional Mavericks Charter Schools | Scathing Purple Musings

Palm Beach County School Board Rejects Additional Mavericks Charter Schools | Scathing Purple Musings:

Palm Beach County School Board Rejects Additional Mavericks Charter Schools

In the New Times yesterday Lisa Rab reported that Palm Beach county school district officials recommended that Maverick’s application for three new charter schools be denied. Today the school board agreed and voted 6-0 to deny the applications. No discussion. No debate and no representatives of Mavericks were at the board vote. Rab commented in an update this evening, “it was an eerily quiet end to three months of drama.”

Indeed.

But its not really over.

Yesterday and at today’s charter school pep rally in Tallahassee, well-funded charter school lobbies signaled they were targeting school boards like Palm Beach county’s for turning down