A decision could be coming regarding the Jefferson County School Board’s response to the state’s request to take over Kentucky’s largest school district.

"We have come close on a response to the interim commissioner. We will return to work on out response- to discuss our response on Monday evening. Our goal is to share our response with Dr. Lewis as soon as possible,” said District 1 board member Diane Porter.

Porter made that comment Friday evening, immediately following an almost four hour’s long closed meeting discussion.  

Porter’s comments were the only statement the board made when they adjourned their meeting around 9 P.M. Friday. 

Earlier this year, the interim education commissioner, Dr. Wayne Lewis, recommended state takeover for Jefferson County Schools. 

Lewis is from New Orleans, where the state took over most of the public schools in the city following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Currently, more than 90 percent of New Orleans students go to charter schools.

That's something Lassiter Middle School teacher Tiffany Dunn doesn’t want to see replicated in Kentucky.

"We do not believe in negotiating with people that have ill intentions. This state board, the governor, Hal Heiner- they have been conspiring to privatize Kentucky's schools since at least 2011. We just don't think that people like that should be negotiated with,” Dunn said.

This year marks Dunn’s 6^th year at Lassiter Middle School. She says she has quite a few students who need public school rather than a charger school.

"Charters, across the board- they discriminate against children. They cherry pick. They throw out children that are not performing the way they want to, whether it be behaviorally, or academically.” Dunn added, “We've seen the negative effects that they've had in the other 43 or so states that have charters currently.”

Lewis didn't attend Friday's board meeting, but in a previous statement said “What I have proposed is a collaborative model to address deficiencies under state management. I continue to hope the district will agree to that proposal. But either way, I will not stand by and do nothing when I am clearly given the tools under Kentucky law to effect change that will benefit thousands of young lives.”