This public charter school desires to serve the downtown community. As long as charters cannot afford to provide busing, Allegro should remain downtown.
Problem is, the Charleston County School District wants Allegro (and all other charters) to fail.
The impossibility of putting Allegro into Burke High, where the halls are so empty that they echo, remains a mystery. Allegro has agreed to disagree. Who will provide enough classroom space downtown for a projected 350 students also remains a mystery. Any space large enough is becoming a hotel. As the peninsula becomes a museum, perhaps Allegro's hunt for downtown space is doomed.
"'One struggle is our own lofty mission, to serve primarily the peninsula and give them a great option for an art school,' said Principal Daniel Neikirk. 'Of course, it’s tremendously difficult to find anything on the peninsula.'"
http://www.allegrocharterschool.org
Vacant school buildings owned by CCSD sit rotting downtown. Anyone ever hear of Fraser?
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My perception, from when all this Allegro/Burke talk was going on, is that the majority of Allegro parents were dead set against locating at Burke.
Also, I'm not sure that most students at Allegro are from downtown. If not, what's the problem with them moving elsewhere?
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