FAYETTEVILLE — Fayetteville School Board President Susan Heil is scheduled to give a report on the millage election results at the board's meeting 5 p.m. Thursday in the Adams Leadership Center, 1000 W. Stone St.
Voters rejected a proposed 4.9-mill increase to finance construction of new high school facilities on the current site Sept. 15.
Board member Jim Halsell is scheduled to give a report on the architect and construction manager selection process during the meeting. A committee that was screening applications for architectsand construction managers started meeting before the election.
Also at the meeting, the board will vote on a resolution from the proposed Prism Education Center to operate an open-enrollment charter school in the district.
Associate Superintendents Ginny Wiseman and John L. Colbert have recommended the board vote against the proposed charter school.
A vote against the proposed charter, however, is primarily a statement that the school district does not endorse the charter school. The Arkansas State Board of Education gives final approval to new charter school applications, and most are denied by their home district before receiving state board approval.
Haas Hall Academy of Fayetteville was one of the few, if not only, Arkansas charter schools that originally received no opposition from the home district when it opened. The school was first located in Farmington in 2004, but last semester, it moved into the Paradigm Building at 3155 N. College Ave., Fayetteville.
Academics, Pages 6 on 09/22/2009