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• Impact Charter School holding open house at former Baker Heights Elementary campus Play Video

  April 15, 2025 12:17 PM

  BAKER — Impact Charter School is holding an open house Tuesday night at the former location of Baker Heights Elementary before students transition to the campus on Thursday. The open house will start at 5:30 p.m. and last an hour. Impact Charter students are at home on Tuesday... more »

• Impact students to finish year at different location; former leaders say move orchestrated in backroom deal Play Video

  April 11, 2025 10:18 AM

  BAKER - Impact Charter School students will report to a new location to finish out their school year starting next week after the charter faced an eviction. In a statement sent to parents Friday morning, school officials said that due to the eviction notice, "remaining in the current space... more »

• Parents vent charter school frustrations after many students retained Play Video

  June 11, 2019 11:13 PM

  BAKER - Angry parents spoke their minds Tuesday evening at a public feedback meeting held at Advantage Charter Academy. Three weeks ago, the parents of about 100 students were notified they would be retained but the school quickly reversed their decision. Many students had passed their classes but had... more »

• Charter school board chair plans meeting with parents after half its students fail Play Video

  May 29, 2019 5:42 PM

  BAKER - The Chairman of the board for Advantage Charter Academy in Baker says he has scheduled a meeting for next month after a number of upset parents expressed frustration that their child failed. Walter Morales confirmed to WBRZ that at least 200 students were retained at Advantage Charter. That... more »

• Possible gas leak at BR charter school results in voluntary evacuation

  May 9, 2016 10:32 AM

  BATON ROUGE - A charter school in North Baton Rouge was evacuated by firefighters after a gas leak was reported Monday morning. A voluntary evacuation was put into place by BRFD after a gas odor was said to be lingering at Inspire Charter Academy, located off N Foster Drive... more »

• Power outage to end charter school classes early

  November 5, 2015 1:44 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Administrators at a Baton Rouge charter school said a power outage forced them to end classes early and call parents to pick up their children Thursday. Director Diana Haynes of JK Haynes Elementary said the outage was expected to last through the rest of the school... more »