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Hillsborough rejects charter school bid by Imagine, raising legal questions about its other Florida schools
Maybe Imagine is losing its luster.
By Tom Marshall
TAMPA — By law, Florida charter schools are supposed to be organized or run by nonprofit groups with local roots.
On Tuesday, in a vote with statewide implications, the Hillsborough County School Board unanimously rejected an applicant that met precisely the opposite description, according to its attorney: not a legal nonprofit, and controlled by a corporation 1,000 miles away.
Representatives from Virginia-based Imagine Schools, which had hoped to open a 414-student school in Riverview next fall, hotly disputed the board's rationale. They said board attorney Tom Gonzalez was misinterpreting the state's charter school law.
"I can find you five attorneys for every one who holds his position," said Karl Huber, Imagine's state director of development. . . .
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— Tom Marshall
St Petersburg Times
2009-12-09
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/hillsborough-rejects-charter-school-bid-by-imagine-raising-legal-questions/1057485
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