Last night the Austin school board squelched, at least for now, any consideration of a partnership with Community Education Partners, the Nashville-based, for-profit operator of alternative schools that has two facilities in Houston. CEP would have operated an alternative center for students in the eighth and ninth grades who were falling behind in their classes. "The Board of Trustees has put the brakes on further consideration of the CEP proposal, maybe not indefinitely, but for now," Andy Wel
