Charter school may open at Davis-Monthan

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Charter school may open at Davis-Monthan
By Mary Bustamante - Tucson Citizen
Posted : Thursday Feb 12, 2009 12:20:21 EST

A private Tucson, Ariz., school is waiting to hear if it will be one of the first charter schools to open a campus on an Air Force base.

Sonoran Science Academy, which already has two Tucson sites, was chosen from three applicants by a Davis-Monthan Air Force Base leadership selection team to be housed in the former Tucson Unified School District’s Lowell H. Smith Elementary School on Davis-Monthan.

Applicants were judged on instructional effectiveness, personnel, special needs programs, non-instructional effectiveness and its general management plan, said base spokeswoman 1st Lt. Mary Pekas. A financial assessment of the schools also was done.

TUSD closed Smith in May 2006 and had planned to reopen it as a middle school for the 2007-08 school year but was unable to do so. TUSD operates another school, Frank Borman Elementary, on the base. The Smith and Borman school buildings are owned by the Air Force.

Pekas said the decision whether to allow Sonoran Science Academy to open in the fall must be made by the Air Force Installations Office. A decision is expected this spring or early summer.


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