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Parents, APC members press board to meet on Pearl Creek charter; legal deadline cited
Summary
Multiple parents and a Pearl Creek APC member urged the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District board to meet with the charter applicants and review the charter’s finances; a board member cited AS 14.03.250 and a 60‑day statutory deadline for a board decision.
At the April 1 Fairbanks North Star Borough School District school board meeting, parents and members of the Pearl Creek charter application committee urged the board to meet with them and review the charter’s financial calculations before issuing a decision.
Members of the Pearl Creek application committee and parents told the board they want the district to compare numbers openly and meet to discuss the differences they say exist between the district’s cost estimates and the charter’s own accounting. “Please don’t write us off,” APC member Lou Frenzl said, urging the board to allow the groups to sit down “and explain our numbers and have you openly and…
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