Two charter school operators — one from New Orleans, the other from Colorado — struck a deal in January to take over control of two large, F-rated charter schools in Baton Rouge that Texas-based IDEA Public Schools surrendered a year ahead of the end of their contract.
The new operators, Audubon Schools and Third Future Schools, though, are not planning to stick with the East Baton Rouge Parish school system when those agreements end in June. Instead, they are trying to jump ship and sign on with a new overseer: the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, or BESE.
BESE is planning to consider on Dec. 9 whether to approve the applications of Audubon and Third Future…