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Should Charter Schools Have Gotten First Dibs On Shuttered Fort Wayne School?

    That’s the accusation in a lawsuit filed against Fort Wayne Community Schools. From the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:

    The Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority has postponed a decision on whether it would take ownership of a vacant elementary school from Fort Wayne Community Schools. Monday afternoon’s decision came hours after the Indiana Public Charter Schools Association filed a lawsuit against FWCS and the airport authority regarding the property transaction, saying it violated a new state law that required public schools to make vacant school buildings available to charter schools for lease or purchase for $1.

    Read more at: www.journalgazette.net

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