Legal Opinion
Beaufort County Board of Education v. Lighthouse Charter School Committee
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided June 1, 1999No. 24950PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Justice:
This appeal involves the denial of a charter school application. We affirm and remand to the circuit court for further proceedings.
FACTS
On December 10,1996, appellant Lighthouse Charter School Committee (Lighthouse) applied to respondent Beaufort County Board of Education (Beaufort Board) for approval of a local charter school under the recently-enacted South Carolina Charter Schools Act of 1996. The Beaufort Board found Lighthouse’s application failed to meet several requirements of the Act and denied the application. Lighthouse appealed to the State Board of Education (State…
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