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District leaders urge killing or amending draft bill to give charter schools first right on sold school property
Summary
Superintendent Ben Orsley told a public town hall that a draft state bill would require districts to offer closed school property to charter schools; he said the district is pushing to kill the bill or add a reversionary clause so the local education agency would regain first refusal if a charter later sold the property.
At a Granite School District town hall, Superintendent Ben Orsley described a draft state bill reported to be sponsored by Rep. Cam Sparucci that would change who gets first right of refusal when district property is sold. Under current practice, Orsley said, municipalities (or county governments) are offered the district’s surplus properties first; the draft bill would shift that first option to charter schools statewide if the district were to sell a…
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