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A Pasco special needs charter school won’t open after all. Here’s why.

By Jeffrey S. Solochek,

18 days ago

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=46LnBC_0sx55wBS00 — After completing an expansion and renovation of its New Port Richey campus, seen here, Pepin Academies Pasco planned to expand into Wesley Chapel. The project was canceled because of rising costs. [ Facebook ]

Over the past few years, the Pasco County School Board turned to an unlikely partner in its efforts to cope with enrollment growth.

Saying the days of fighting charter schools had passed, the board entered partnerships with local charter groups as a way to more nimbly bring more classroom seats to booming communities in Trinity, Land O’Lakes and Wesley Chapel.

It donated a school site to the Patel Foundation for Global Understanding, helped Dayspring Academy with the construction of an elementary school in the Angeline subdivision, and set aside $15 million to support Pepin Academies’ expansion into the Kirkland Ranch development.

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