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SF Board of Education votes to deny Mary L. Booker Leadership Academy charter after contentious public hearing
Summary
After a marathon public hearing with dozens of speakers for and against, the San Francisco Board of Education voted 6-0 on June 12 to deny the charter petition for the Mary L. Booker Leadership Academy, citing staff findings that petitioners were "demonstrably unlikely to successfully implement the program."
The San Francisco Board of Education voted June 12 to deny the charter petition for Mary L. Booker Leadership Academy, concluding a long and sometimes rancorous public hearing that drew dozens of speakers from the Bayview and beyond.
Board staff read a written recommendation that, under California Education Code section 47605, the petitioners were "demonstrably unlikely to successfully implement the program set forth in the petition" and asked the board to adopt the findings in the staff report as the basis for denial. Board members then took public comment in two…
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