In back to back meetings with no public forum

the APS School Board will make it harder for to students to shop around in their efforts to educate themselves.

The Journal reports, link,

A key limitation under the new policy is that students will be able to take outside credit only if they are taking a class that isn’t reasonably offered by APS.

The board is experiencing a conflict of interests.  On the one hand, they want to hang onto students and the money that comes with them.  On the other hand, there is the school board's own code of ethics, link; their number one ethic being;

1. Make the education and well-being of students the basis for all decision making.

Clearly the education and well-being of students is best served by making their education as easily available as it can be made.  Any class offered anywhere by any means, either meets standards for classes or does not.  If it does, it doesn't make any difference who offers it or how.  Nor does it matter, how many hours it takes a student to demonstrate adequate proficiency.  It only matters, whether the class meets standards.

The school board will settle this conflict in the manner they settle all their conflicts of interest; they will vote in favor of their self interests. They will do it in back to back meetings with no public forum. Neither agenda, link, link, allows public input.

No opportunity is allowed for people to petition their government, their first right under the Constitution of the United States.

Charter school advocates, including the students who choose them over APS' and their "reasonable" efforts to meet their individual needs, will have no voice in the decision.

Business as usual for the board.