President and Executive Director of Smart Schools Inc. Tommie Henderson poses in this file photo.Leaders of Hamilton County’s planned law and business-themed charter school will wait another year before opening.
The New Consortium of Law and Business was approved in March, after the Hamilton County Board of Education twice denied its application.
The school could have opened in August of this year, but organizers now have set their sights on an August 2013 opening, said Tommie Henderson, president and executive director of SMART Schools Inc., the group overseeing the charter.
“Because we were so late in the year and the opening of the school would be rushed, we are going to take a year of planning and get to know the community before we actually open our school,” Henderson said.
The New Consortium’s plans call for 35 students in the school’s first year, rising eventually to 210 students in grades six through 12.