Environmental Charter School

==Insights==
===Board approves new charter school===
:February 21, 2008, By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A new charter school will open in the fall of 2008 in Pittsburgh's East End.
The PPS board last approved a charter for the Environmental Charter School at Frick Park -- an Imagine School.
Community organizers brought in Arlington, Va.-based Imagine Schools to run the school, which will open in September, 2008, with about 250 students in kindergarten through third grade.
It will operate in the former Regent Square Elementary building, which the charter's organizers purchased from the school district for $3 million in 2006.
The school will add one grade a year until it reaches a K-8 configuration with about 650 students, said Philip Parr, a former Pittsburgh Public Schools official now working as a regional school developer for Imagine.
The board approved the charter by a 7-1 vote at a special legislative meeting. Jean Fink voted no and Mark Brentley Sr. abstained, saying he didn't believe the school had a plan for attracting children outside the East End.
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