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08-11-2005, 05:03 AM
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=12299&category=Main%20Headline
About 100 students at Delray Boynton Academy Charter School and Riviera Beach Academy, both rated as “double F” charter schools by the Palm Beach County School District, may have to find a new school to attend just one day after the start of the new academic year.
School Board members meeting Wednesday with school officials and Superintendent Art Johnson voted unanimously to close the two troubled facilities.
The decision came after the state Department of Education threatened to withhold funding from the School District if the two schools remain in operation, said Johnson. Just last month, School Board members rejected the superintendent’s recommendation to close down the schools, choosing instead to let the state make the final call.
At the meeting, many School Board members said they wanted the school to remain open, but felt their hands were tied.
“We cannot place at risk 127,000 students in Palm Beach County. I’m willing to travel to Tallahassee with the charter school principals and speak on their behalf to improve the A+ plan and the FCAT,” said School Board member Paulette Burdick.
“The DOE [Department of Education] has pressed their hands around our neck. I feel pressured to support the recommendation to not put children in the district in harm’s way,” added School Board member Debra Robinson.
Johnson said the schools’ principals have the option of appealing to the state, becoming a private institute or closing down their facilities. Both schools will no longer receive money from the state to fund materials needed for the schools to operate on a daily basis.
Read more (http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=12299&category=Main%20Headline)
About 100 students at Delray Boynton Academy Charter School and Riviera Beach Academy, both rated as “double F” charter schools by the Palm Beach County School District, may have to find a new school to attend just one day after the start of the new academic year.
School Board members meeting Wednesday with school officials and Superintendent Art Johnson voted unanimously to close the two troubled facilities.
The decision came after the state Department of Education threatened to withhold funding from the School District if the two schools remain in operation, said Johnson. Just last month, School Board members rejected the superintendent’s recommendation to close down the schools, choosing instead to let the state make the final call.
At the meeting, many School Board members said they wanted the school to remain open, but felt their hands were tied.
“We cannot place at risk 127,000 students in Palm Beach County. I’m willing to travel to Tallahassee with the charter school principals and speak on their behalf to improve the A+ plan and the FCAT,” said School Board member Paulette Burdick.
“The DOE [Department of Education] has pressed their hands around our neck. I feel pressured to support the recommendation to not put children in the district in harm’s way,” added School Board member Debra Robinson.
Johnson said the schools’ principals have the option of appealing to the state, becoming a private institute or closing down their facilities. Both schools will no longer receive money from the state to fund materials needed for the schools to operate on a daily basis.
Read more (http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=12299&category=Main%20Headline)