Leading Edge Design High School to Shut Down

by Nicole Billard | June 6, 2007 at 11:15 am

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A High-school where administrators and students alike are known for leading the way towards a visionary, dynamic and successful future has chosen to quit the field.
After a long battle over where the school would be located at the end of their lease, many of the students of the Marin School of Arts and Technology will be going to the Metropolitan School of Arts and Technology in San Francisco... not only a long, traffic filled commute - it's a part of the SF school district and therein lies a problem.

Charter schools are governed by the parents, and the students and faculty have control over their own success, and this one in particular had shown enormous potential. The fear is that some of it's most promising students will choose to return to 'regular' high-school, where their creativity may not be fostered and explored...

The school is known for its creative programs, successful project-based learning and high academic achievement. Supporters say that more than 70 percent of the school's graduating seniors this year have been accepted to at least one four-year college and have been awarded more than $830,000 in financial aid.

Farmerfresh at Digg says - "The Marin School of Arts and Technology, #1 Charter School in
California (Dept. of Ed), is forced to close by the bureaucrats and
bean-counters of the local school board. In the final death blow of a
long, systematic extermination attempt, NUSD denied the high-achieving
school a place to exist and denied the children a place to shine."

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