SCHOOL DAY
Debate on Somerville Progressive Charter School Isn't Over
If the state's board of education votes to deny a charter, the creators of the school will submit a refined application later this year.
After the state’s education commissioner announced last week that he wouldn’t support the proposed Somerville Progressive Charter School, the welcome note on the school’s website changed to reflect the creators’ revised goal. “There is a new public school which will hopefully be opening in Somerville in the Fall [sic] of 2013.” For months, Somerville School Committee members, parents and teachers debated, among many issues, whether or not this publicly funded independent Commonwealth charter school would educate English language learners and teach science better than the district’s elementary schools do. And although Progress Together for Somerville, a group of parents who oppose the charter school, declared in a statement that the “…
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