The Sto-Rox school board Thursday postponed its vote on a revised application from Propel charter schools to start a K-12 school in McKees Rocks and instead created a committee to explore how the district could work cooperatively with Propel.
Some expect the addition of a Propel Charter School will bankrupt the Sto-Rox District. Diane Ravitch asks the readers of her blog: Will Sto-Rox go the way of Chester-Upland, where a charter school absorbed most of their funding and drove the local schools into bankruptcy?
Jeremy Resnick, executive director and Propel founder, stated that the demand for another charter school is there at a public hearing last month where he referred to a petition with 251 signatures indicating interest.
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