Five charter schools have filed a legal challenge against the Indian River County School Board, arguing that they are not getting a proper share of voter-approved tax dollars.
Indian River Charter High School Inc., Imagine Schools at South Vero, North County Charter School Inc., Sebastian Charter Junior High Inc., and St. Peter’s Academy Inc., are asking an administrative law judge to find that they are not receiving a proportionate share of money from a 2012 referendum in which voters approved levying 0.6 mills of property taxes to fund public-school operations. The schools contend that they backed the referendum, which was an increase from a 0.25-mill levy approved in 2010, and were supposed to receive a pro-rata share of the money.
