Nine months after the ouster of its old management, Impact Charter School in Baker has selected new leadership and is trying to move on from its controversial past.

“I am excited and looking forward to continuing the work here at Impact, working with the parents, the students and the staff,” Kim Germany, the school’s new CEO, told The Advocate.

The past, however, is not quietly going away. The prior management of the school, led by founder and former CEO Chakesha Scott, continues to pursue multiple court cases that seek to turn back the clock and restore them to power at the K-8 school that opened in 2014.

The charter school’s board hired education veteran Germany on Nov. 12. She is replacing Michelle Clayton, a former deputy superintendent of East Baton Rouge Parish schools, who was hi

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