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Board paves way for Berkeley's first charter schools
- 06-10-2010
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By Doug Oakley/Pasadena Star News
Berkeley's school board approved the city's first charter schools Wednesday night, a victory organizers say will help better educate the city's black and Latino students. By a vote of 4-1 with John Selawsky dissenting, the board approved the Revolutionary Education and Learning Movement, which plans to open middle and high schools serving 200 students each starting in September 2011. Victor Diaz, a Berkeley school principal who spearheaded the drive to start the schools, said he hopes to put the middle school in an empty district building at University Avenue and Bonar Street called the West Campus. He said organizers are looking for commercial space somewhere west of San Pablo Avenue in the city's industrial zone for the high school. (more...)
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