Board to hold charter school meeting
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JACKSON — East Feliciana Parish School Board members said Tuesday they will hold a special meeting at a later date to hear a Slaughter group’s proposal to start a charter school in the southern part of the parish.
The board recently received an April 2 “letter of intent” from Slaughter Community Charter School for a proposal to operate a Type 1 charter school in the 2010-11 school year for seventh- through 12th-grade students.
The School Board would retain some control over a Type 1 school, Superintendent Doug Beauchamp said.
“This wouldn’t take our students,” board member Beth Dawson said.
“These are the kids we’re losing anyway,” added board President J. Curtis Jelks.
Jelks and Dawson were referring to the fact that many Slaughter Elementary students leave the public school system rather than continue in the seventh grade at Jackson and Clinton middle schools.
The board elected, however, to ask the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to study the charter school’s financial impact on the district’s state funding.
A special meeting to hear the proposal is in lieu of a committee meeting with the charter school backers.
Clinton member Michael Bradford, who voted against asking for the study, said he would rather the charter school leaders discuss their ideas with the full board instead of “a specific group that favors charter schools.”
On another matter, the board gave Beauchamp an average rating of 113, in the “superior” range, on his first evaluation since becoming superintendent a year ago.
Beauchamp also gave a report on his first year, saying the district’s budget is “in the black” for the first time in two years, 22 positions have been eliminated and three of the parish’s seven schools have waiting lists of teachers who seek employment.
The district has collected $850,000 in delinquent sales taxes since April 2008, Beauchamp said.
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