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Metro Deaf School to drop FL charter |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
After 15 years of partnership, the Metro Deaf School will no longer have ISD 831 in Forest Lake as its charter holder. The school has requested the charter school be released from its agreement in ISD 831 in order for it to pursue a partnership and merger with the Minnesota North Star Academy, a high school. Dyan Sherwood, founder and director of the St. Paul school for the deaf, had praise for ISD 831 and former administrator, Beth Sullivan, for the efforts over 15 years of partnership. The relationship was borne in 1992 when a number of parents of deaf children in ISD 831 helped encourage the charter arrangement here. “As the second charter school to open in the nation and the first charter school to serve D/HH children in the nation, Forest Lake was visionary in its unanimous decision back in 1992 and we will be forever grateful,” Sherwood said in a letter to the district. The current charter contract expires June 30. The board voted 7-0 to approve a resolution that ISD 831 does not contest the change in charter sponsors.
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