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Board denies New School of San Francisco charter petition after contested K'12 scope and capacity concerns
Summary
After hours of public testimony and board debate over whether the petition's K'12 scope represented a material change, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to deny the New School of San Francisco petition, citing doubts about the petitioners' ability to implement the full K'12 program and fiscal/implementation concerns.
The San Francisco Board of Education voted on Oct. 28 to deny the charter petition from the New School of San Francisco after extended public testimony and internal debate over the petition's scope and the petitioners' operational capacity.
Petition cofounders Ryan Chapman and Emily Bobo presented the school model as an equity-focused, inquiry-based "city-as-classroom" laboratory school and said they had extensive parent and community support. Dozens of speakers from…
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