State lawmaker makes push for charter schools

Jim Waters and Pastor Jerry Stephenson were interviewed by Fox 41 Sunday afternoon in advance of a press conference held on Monday by Rep. Brad Montell to showcase his bill for charter schools in Kentucky.

On Monday morning a press conference was held in front of the Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Louisville, where Rep. Brad Montell and several local pastors made the case for charter schools in Ky. Rep. Montell has prefiled a bill that will create "public school academies" that will allow failing schools to become charter schools. These new charter schools will operate independent of the public school system.