Piru School will not become charter, state board rules

05-06-2010

By Timm Herdt/Ventura County Star

A controversy that longtime Piru resident Carolyn Jimenez said has disrupted her community more severely than “floods, storms and earthquakes” was settled Wednesday when the state Board of Education voted to deny a petition to convert the town’s only school into a charter school. The petition, initiated by nine of the school’s 17 teachers, had been previously rejected by the Fillmore Unified School District and the Ventura County Board of Education. The state board was the last avenue for appeal. The nearly three-hour hearing was attended by literally busloads of people from Ventura County, including those who arrived after an all-night ride on two buses chartered by Piru parents using money raised through taco and tamale sales. (more...)

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