Sea Islands YouthBuild for 2008-09?

Click on Sea Islands YouthBuild below if you haven't been following the Perils of Pauline (aka the Hunt for Red October aka the effort to find a building for this CCSD-encouraged charter school) during the last year.

After a most confused and mismanaged year, when the students had dwindled down to 21 enrolled (although not always in attendance), Sea Islands negotiated a three-year lease on a building to house the program in early May. Then during the same month the CCSD School Board voted not to renew its charter. However, the school continues to run, and as the P & C reported over the weekend, not one, but two, scheduled meetings for July with representatives of the Board have not materialized.

Thanks to a reader, I'm quoting from state law on charter schools:

(C) A charter must be revoked or not renewed by the sponsor if it determines that the charter school:

(1) committed a material violation of the conditions, standards, or procedures provided for in the charter application;

(2) failed to meet or make reasonable progress, as defined in the charter application, toward pupil achievement standards identified in the charter application;

(3) failed to meet generally accepted standards of fiscal management; or

(4) violated any provision of law from which the charter school was not specifically exempted.

(D) At least sixty days before not renewing or terminating a charter school, the sponsor shall notify in writing the charter school's governing body of the proposed action. The notification shall state the grounds for the proposed action in reasonable detail. Termination must follow the procedure provided for in this section.

*snip*

(F) The charter school's governing body may request in writing a hearing before the sponsor within fourteen days of receiving notice of nonrenewal or termination of the charter. Failure by the school's governing body to make a written request for a hearing within fourteen days must be treated as acquiescence to the proposed action. Upon receiving a timely written request for a hearing, the sponsor shall give reasonable notice to the school's governing body of the hearing date. The sponsor shall conduct a hearing before taking final action. The sponsor shall take final action to renew or not renew a charter by the last day of classes in the last school year for which the charter school is authorized. [italics mine]

What the most recent P & C article doesn't mention is that Sea Islands must get its due process. As the Board put off making a decision about the school for months, did it occur to them that the school would continue to operate and, more importantly, receive its funds due from CCSD for at least several months AFTER a vote to close it? Maybe I'm reading too much into the last part of the law (in italics above), but it appears that Sea Islands may continue to operate until June of 2009.

How many more hundreds of thousands of dollars will that be for 20 or so students?