Three charter schools are on track to continue operating through 2030 after the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board preliminarily approved renewing them

The School Board on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of four-year renewals f or CSAL Middle, The Emerge School for Autism and South Baton Rouge Charter Academy. A final vote is set for Nov. 20. Absent renewal, the charters for these three schools are set to expire in June.

Charter schools are public schools run privately via charters, or contracts.

These are three of 13 charter schools sponsored by the parish school system. There are 15 additional charter schools in the parish sponsored by the state as well as four satellite campuses in Baton Rouge run by state-sponsored charter schools whose main campuses are elsewhere in the sta

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