
Before the summer is over, the school board will approve the district’s first charter school.
Last week, Steve Diggs (executive director of the Emerald Youth Foundation, an organization that he helped found in 1988 as an inner-city youth ministry that has done immense good work with disadvantaged children in the years since) formally announced that Emerald Charter Schools will submit an application for a tuition-free, K-8 public school, to be called Emerald Academy, on April 1. The school board will vote it up or down before the start of next school year.