charter schools

Elsie Arntzen writes, "Woke organizations, with no accountability to our taxpayers, used our Montana court system to attack me and delay the opening of Public Charter Schools that were passed under HB 549 during the 2023 legislative session."

The lawsuit filed Thursday said Superintendent Elsie Arnzten violated a law passed in 2023 where the legislature granted the Board of Public Education the exclusive power to approve charter schools.

A Montana District Court judge has put a temporary halt to the enactment of a new law that allows the state to create charter schools more independent from the existing education system.

By the start of the 2024-25 school year, a pair of new laws call for new charter schools to be operating within the state – but one of those laws first faces a challenge in the courts.

Two competing bills that would create new models for establishing charter schools in Montana are active once again, a day after being voted down on the Senate floor.