A few weeks out from start of school, parents struggle to enroll kids after IDEA closures

BATON ROUGE – With school right around the corner, some parents whose children attended the now-closed IDEA Bridge and IDEA Innovative charter schools are having trouble transferring their kids to a new school.

“The only documentation that most of us had at the time when we went back to Bridge to transfer our kids was only their report card, so we have no documentation of their LEAP scores or anything of that nature,” Joshua Tilly, a former coach at IDEA and the parent of a student, said.

Tilly said he wasn’t able to contact the administration to receive those records…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS