A week after submitting a more than 250-page charter application to the Lafayette Parish School Board, a Lafayette non-profit will make its pitch to the board Wednesday evening for opening a public charter school in north Lafayette for the 2010-2011 school year.
Outreach Community Development Corporation — a group of educators and community members concerned about what they consider substandard education in four northside schools — wants to use N.P. Moss Middle as the site for the proposed Harvest Preparatory Academy. That facet of the pitch is already complicated by the fact that the Baton Rouge planning firm hired to help the school system devise a comprehensive facilities master plan has already recommended that Moss be used for a public technical high school. Moreover, several school board members have already expressed their opposition to another public charter opening in Lafayette, citing a siphoning of resources away from traditional public schools.
OCDC Executive Director Tiffanie Lewis told The Independent late last month that the plan is for Harvest Prep to accept 90 students in grades 5, 6 and 7 and to increase one grade level per year until it reaches 600 students in grades 5 through 12. HPA will accept students who currently attend J.W. Faulk and Alice Boucher elementaries, N.P. Moss Middle and Northside High.
Lewis also told The Independent that if the LPSB declines to approve the charter application, OCDC is prepared to go straight to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education for approval.
For more on OCDC’s vision for the school, see our Nov. 4 article.
... written by Morrow , November 17, 2009 - 07:00 pm
I'm still stewing over the comment that accused the people of Lafayette of "under serving" the children of North Lafayette.....
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , November 18, 2009 - 03:37 pm
NO-ONE, is underserving anyone!!!!!! I'VE HEARD DAT TOOTLE FOR 45 YEARS!!!!!!! When allus fails, dey play "dat song" again..... Ya got "UNO", das 1=ONE, multi-mucho, dollar enterprise das been heah in front yo eyes fo 60 plus years!!!!!!!!!
How about ahn INSTITUTION, dat trains OIL INDUSTRY PERSONNEL. Sheeeeet, i guess dat would be ill-logical, HUH ??? Ay, can anyone remember da VO-TECH on BERTRAND wid da DRILLING RIG ???
HELL, EVEN BURGER KING $ MCDONALD TRAIN THEIR PEEPS, TA FLIP DEM BURGERS! The oil industry here in south louisiana, designs, fabricates and ships oilfield equipment around the world........South louisiana can lay claim to being "THE MECCA", of the Oil Industry, a training ground sending the most highly skilled service personnel around the globe!!!!! LOUISIANA'S, FAVORITE WHIPPING BOY $ LOUISIANA'S MOST $$$$$$$$$$ producing ECONOMICAL WHEEL!!!!!
These local EDUCATORS $ COMMUNITY MEMBERS want da key ta da lil piggy! SHADES OF DAT ACORN ORG. These calhouns who have'nt contributed a pinch of salt, ta da POT, NOW WANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO FAIL, AGAIN !!! HEY ! These are the same educators responsible for those """UNDER DEVELOPED""" children $ they want ta teach " MY KIDS ". IF THIS FIASCO IS ALLOWED TO BE PERPETRATED ON OUR CITIZENRY! THEN, THIS SCHOOLBOARD SHOULD SUBJECT THEMSELVES TA DRUG SCREENING JESUS, da wind is blowin ah "CIVET" odah from dem cats!!!!!!!
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