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04.01.2009 11:52 am

Sinquefield, Schock sue St. Louis Public Schools to lift building sales deed restrictions

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A Missouri millionaire and a local attorney have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to force St. Louis Public School leaders to sell closed city school buildings to charter schools.

Millionaire Rex Sinquefield and attorney W. Bevis Schock, both school reform…

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03.27.2009 1:03 pm

Georgia to allow charter schools to use empty district buildings

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A bill just passed by Georgia’s state legislature has perked the ears of Missouri charter school advocates, frustrated with a St. Louis Public School decision to bar charters from buying district buildings.

HB555 passed the Georgia senate, 49 to 1, yesterday.…

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03.02.2009 1:59 pm

St. Louis Public to sell school buildings to charters? Not so fast

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Legislators expressed hopes at a press conference this morning that they’d be able to get a bill passed forcing the St. Louis Public School Board to lift its deed restriction on the sale of old school buildings, thus allowing charter…

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