The immense power of the seven-member Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board is being displayed as it contemplates closing a Canton school – SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy – for alleged money woes.
The Board is expected to make a decision later this summer. But will that decision be constitutional?
SR1 is one of 12 charter schools currently in operation in Mississippi after being approved by the state Authorizer Board. Those schools cumulatively receive about $50 million annually in state and local funding, plus additional federal funding, making the Authorizer Board responsible for more public money than most of Mississippi’s agencies, boards and commissions…