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Budget pressure heightens South Bay charter-school district disputes
- 06-02-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
With enrollment growing annually, Discovery Charter School in San Jose hoped to add two classrooms at its West San Jose campus this fall. Instead, the 4-year-old charter school has received a letter from the Moreland School District's attorney declaring that nearly one-third of the school's portable classrooms would be removed by the end of June. "We've reached an all-time low in communication," said Barb Eagle, Discovery's board president. Discovery isn't alone in its sometime fractious relationship with elected trustees. The financial vise squeezing California schools has intensified friction between charter schools and nearby school districts. In the South Bay, a dispute over parcel tax revenues in Alum Rock and ongoing lawsuits in Los Altos have roots in the pressing search for dollars and in the vague rules governing charters, which are public schools allowed to operate independently of local school boards and California's education code. (more...)
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