NAMPA — An Idaho Public Charter School Commission official has found information she believes supports the commission's concern that a Nampa charter school's director of operations is an administrator working without required administrative certification.

But the new school's acting board chairman says the position's contract does not describe the position as administrative.

The Nampa Classical Academy, which opened in September with more than 500 students, has had other issues with the Charter School Commission. It is suing the state for the right to use the Bible and other religious texts in its curriculum after the commission said it could not. The Charter School Commission has also obtained multiple public records from the school about a variety of issues including teacher certification, budgeting and family members of board members working at the school.

In the academy's July 20 board meeting minutes, an unidentified speaker makes statements that indicate Isaac Moffett's position as the school's director of operations is that of an administrator, Charter School Commission program manager Tamara Baysinger said.

"It seems there is only one administrator who is being consulted for the special ed decisions," the minutes show the speaker saying. "Everything should be run through the headmaster and the director of operations."

The passage from the board minutes "indicates they think of the director of operations position as an administrative position," Baysinger said.

But the academy's acting board chairman Mike Moffett said his brother Isaac Moffett's contract says otherwise.

"We have one administrator, and he's the headmaster," Mike Moffett said.

Meanwhile Moffett has ordered an internal audit for the school to ensure compliance with the Charter School Commission's requirements and recommendations. That announcement came in a press release from the school Sunday.

"Nampa Classical Academy's school board is taking proactive measures to ensure that recommendations from the Charter School Commission are effectively and expediently put into place," a prepared statement released from the school Sunday reads in part.

Nampa Classical Academy also has a new chairman of its public relations committee, new board member Erik Makrush.

The school plans to hire an attorney to represent itself in dealings with the Charter Commission.