Utah Legislature: House OKs college charter schools

Higher education could dip into K-12 with SB55

Published: Thursday, Feb. 25 2010 12:38 a.m. MST

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High school senior Ciara Marshall has a couple of hours to kill before her 10 a.m. psychology class, so she wanders down to the school library, where a few other students are working on research papers and browsing the Internet, and she fires up CNN.com.

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Is a student required to live in the same district boundries of the charter school? For example, the school being used as an example is in Jordan District, but could someone from Granite District attend or would another charter school need to be More..

4:40 p.m. Feb. 24, 2010
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Ron

Frankly I think all these different schools are annoying and bad for kids. Just my two cents.

1:37 a.m. Feb. 25, 2010
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Charters have no real boundaries. The students do usually need to get their own transportation, though.

4:48 a.m. Feb. 25, 2010
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