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Nearby Core Knowledge, K-8 Charter School Gets Green Light
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Nearby Core Knowledge, K-8 Charter School Gets Green Light
The Vacaville Unified School District Board of Trustees have voted 5-2 in favor of approving, with conditions, the petition for Kairos Public School Vacaville Academy, a K-8 Core Knowledge-based public charter school. The vote struck down Vacaville district staff’s recommendation to deny the project and gave the charter school a green light to move forward.
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Trustees balked at a staff recommendation to deny the petition, based on a list of deficiencies the district’s legal team found in the petition. District staffers had recommended denial based on three findings: 1) exclusion of "reasonably comprehensive descriptions" of the petition's elements; 2) school founders are "unlikely to successfully implement" the program; and 3) the petition offered "an unsound education program." District staffers also questioned the Kairos petition's perceived shortcomings on special education services and outreach to achieve "a racial and ethnic balance reflective of the district," among other things.
Vacaville Kairos Public School Vacaville Academy had already received conditional approval of federal start-up grants totaling $575,000 pending district authorization.
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Kairos plans to open with 482 students and the curriculum, according to the school’s founder, will be a “classical education model, based in part on the ideas of E.D. Hirsch Jr., an American educator, academic literary critic and retired University of Virginia professor of English.”
To read more about this proposed Core Knowledge charter school and the Vacaville Board’s decision, please read the following articles:
