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"Getting more money to get more teachers in front of students" ???  Isn't that what is wrong with our schools?

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My husband and I worked on Model Cities effort to make schools ones that our children -- on any level -- could excel... that was over 40 years ago and the best bet yet towards that goal are charter schools.

How many times do you find a high schooler excited about going to school?  Well, our grandson found the LEP Charter school by accident, stopped by, and enrolled the next day.  He is thrilled and excited about his schooling, the teachers, the format, and is busy making business plans for his future.  Now he tells us that LEP is on the "chopping block!"  What a shame.  This school provides a beautiful mix of our population, not only in color, but in societal levels..creating an atmoshphere of personal and general acceptance for who you are and what you want to be -- not on artificial status markers.... we can only hope for more of these types of school...not less.  The LEP school needs to survive..

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