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Ravenswood board rejects high school: SUPPORTERS DISAPPOINTED; APPEAL PONDERED.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)

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Byline: Sharon Noguchi

May 13--Despite impassioned pleas from parents and students, Ravenswood City School District trustees Thursday turned down Aspire Public Schools' request to open what would be the first public high school in East Palo Alto in several decades.

Aspire, which runs the K-8 East Palo Alto Charter School, hopes to phase in a high school, beginning in the fall with the ninth grade. Supporters filled the board room and urged trustees to approve the expansion.

But board President Jacqueline Wallace Greene argued that although she supports the idea of a high school in the community, that isn't the responsibility of Ravenswood, as a K-8…

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