Vera Triplett knew the state had her New Orleans charter school in its sights.
Last December, Louisiana’s state board of education was on the verge of closing Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning due to repeated F’s on its state report card. So Triplett, who opened the charter school in 2017 to serve mostly students with disabilities, decided to pivot to the private sector.
Last month, Noble Minds reopened as a tuition-charging “microschool,” or a very small, mostly unregulated private school…