The state takeover of two F-rated schools in Baker is potentially back on after an appellate court tossed an April decision by a Baton Rouge judge that temporarily halted the move.
If it stands, the ruling by the First Circuit Court of Appeal gives state education leaders a freer hand in wresting control of the operations of chronically low-performing schools from resistant local leaders.
The original state plan was to take over one of the schools in the small suburban Baton Rouge school district when the school year ended in late May and hand it over to an Indiana-based charter school network, GEO Academies…