By Tim Cook, Spirit of Jefferson
KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. — As a cost-cutting measure, the Eastern Panhandle Preparatory Academy in Kearneysville, the county’s public charter school, will no longer offer a high school and pre-kindergarten program for its third school year next fall.
The school’s board of directors voted on Dec. 12 to eliminate its high school and pre-kindergarten program in the face of a debt “in excess of $1.8 million,” according to Ron Packard, the chief executive and co-founder of Accel Schools, the private management company operating EPPA.
EPPA’s debt is owed to Accel Schools, which provided the start-up funding.
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