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Article: Charter move: five Lake Wales schools break off from the school district to form their own charter system.(Education)
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- Florida Trend
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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A charter school experiment in Lake Wales is attracting the attention of communities statewide.
In July, five schools in Lake Wales--a town of 12,000 nestled among rolling hills, citrus groves and pastures in central Florida--withdrew from the Polk County School District and formed a charter school system. The schools include 3,500 students at four elementary schools and a high school.
While Pembroke Pines in Broward County created a city charter school system from scratch by building new schools, Lake Wales is the first in the state to convert existing schools into a charter system.
Community leaders, including many in the town's business ...
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