Now here's more on Amendment two.

We caught up with a current educator caught up in this school choice debate.

Gus La Fontaine.

He hopes to open the first charter school in the state.

Our June LaFleur visited his private school, which already has students and teachers, but no public funding.

La Fontaine Preparatory School serves about 175 pre-K through fifth graders.

What does that kind of look like?

What runs across the country have a what?

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A rider.

Gus Love Fontaine opened the private school in Richmond about 13 years ago.

Some unique things about the school.

Small class sizes and three recesses a day.

You know, I often call that the best behavior management tool that a classroom teacher has because active children can get outside and work out that energy in a productive way.

And then when they come back inside, we've found that they're more focused and ready for instruction.

And specialty curricula like engineering.

They they build with their hands, they creative problem solver, they work in small teams.

We give them constraints that they have to work through.

Lamont Hain created an environment for students and teachers.

He wanted to see.

Things like small classes, more planning time, more balanced instruction, no high stakes testing cultures.

Tuition is about $7,000 a year, but those costs could go away if the school went from a private school to a charter school.

You know, if I had to sum it up, it was just it was really a way to increase access to our school for all kids, regardless of their income levels.

State lawmakers first sanctioned charter schools in 2017.

Five years later, lawmakers figured out how to fund these schools with public dollars.

That's when Lavon Tane got to work on his charter school application and submitted it to the local public school district for approval.

But last year, a Franklin Circuit Court judge blocked the charter school law.

Right now, it's on pause because our our charter school, the charter school law is being constitutionally challenged.

It's Supreme Court right now.

So we're waiting to see what happens with that.

But if this kicks back up, then we'll complete the modifications that Madison County schools want to see and then resubmit our application.

How voters decide on a proposed constitutional amendment will likely impact the pending case, even if voters or the Supreme Court side with Lavon Tain, it would still be a battle.

Lavon Tain would have to resubmit his application, and Madison County public schools would have to approve it.

Offering to fund the school with their own dollars.

I mean, I also acknowledge that there's some discomfort with us applying to become a charter school, but I've never assumed that we were in opposition.

If the school district declines, Lavon Tain could appeal to the State Board of Education, which has said publicly it doesn't support school choice.

School choice opponents say even tuition free charter schools that follow state regulations are bad for Kentucky.

Our public school systems in many cases do not have adequate funding and don't have adequate funding to do everything that they need to do.

And so those dollars are going to come from somewhere, even in a charter school model.

Those dollars will come from dollars that would otherwise be going to the public school system.

La Fontaine expects plenty of that skepticism, along with some growing pains.

If he is allowed to open Kentucky's first charter School for Kentucky Edition in June, Leffler.