Recent signs suggest just that.
The latest involved the board turning away the application of a Big Island school for a charter until it can establish that it has met applicable building, health and fire codes. This requirement is absurd. The 1999 charter school legislation required the board to approve 25 charter schools. Under that law, as long as an application is complete, the board cannot turn it down. That's a powerful endorsement of a concept that the board now appears to doubt.