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Cumberland Mayor Daniel McKee is proposing opening a public elementary school to serve five separate communities. The new school would enroll up to 200 elementary school children, have no admission criteria, and would be the first of several schools to be established over the next five to six years in the Blackstone Valley. The school would be supervised by the mayor or a board of mayors from the five communities, with the day-to-day operations run by a nonprofit organization. The school could be created under the state's charter school law, but the General Assembly has limited the approval of new charter schools in the state. McKee and supporters of the regional system would have to get the General Assembly to lift the charter moratorium or draft new legislation that specifically creates the Blackstone Valley regional school system. "We're talking about building it completely from scratch, creating a network of schools that is a lot more transparent and more accountable," says the town director of Children, Youth and Learning, Michael Magee. "If the current system could control costs and improve education, we wouldn't be doing this."
Source: Providence Journal (free registration required)
Date: 12/15/2007
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