Article: Chester Upland charter plan assailed: The school board aims to cap charter enrollment. Many parents at the emotional hearing disagreed.

Byline: Dan Hardy

Apr. 19--More than 250 parents, teachers and community activists turned out at Chester High School last night to tell the board that runs the troubled Chester Upland School District what they thought of a proposal to cap charter school enrollment at its current level. A vote is expected next week, board Chairman C. Marc Woolley said. The resolution to limit charter enrollment to 2,573 students was announced last month by the board, which says the charters are draining money from the regular school system. The board was recently appointed by the Rendell administration to replace a Republican-dominated board that last year approved of ...

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