{"id":7049,"date":"2013-08-14T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2013-08-14T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:46:12","slug":"decision-due-by-thursday-on-graystones-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=7049","title":{"rendered":"Decision due by Thursday on Graystone&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Commonwealth Court judge will rule on whether charter school can reopen<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/span><\/strong>, <em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Graystone-Academy-logo-300x3002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7050\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Graystone-Academy-logo-300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Graystone-Academy-logo-300x3002-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Graystone-Academy-logo-300x3002.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Graystone-Academy-logo-300x3002-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Graystone-Academy-logo-300x3002-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A decision in the long-running dispute between Graystone Academy Charter School and the Coatesville Area School District is expected by Thursday, attorneys on both sides said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert \u201cRobin\u201d Simpson heard about an hour of argument over whether or not to stay Graystone\u2019s charter revocation as the school appeals a July 30 ruling by the Pennsylvania Charter School Appeals Board, a ruling that upheld the Coatesville Area School District\u2019s November 2011 decision to revoke Graystone\u2019s charter.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said he would issue a decision by Thursday, the attorneys said. Without a stay of the revocation, Graystone will be unable to open its doors on Aug. 26, affecting about 272 students.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Brian Leinhauser, the solicitor for the charter school, has said the school strongly disputes the findings of both the school district and the appeals board. James Ellison, the Coatesville district solicitor, has said that the district, which pays millions of dollars a year in tuition subsidies to Graystone, has been trying to close the school for several years because it repeatedly failed to provide the education it promised, a conclusion that the appeals board affirmed in a detailed, 61-page report.<\/p>\n<p>To read the Pennsylvania Charter School Appeals Board\u2019s decision, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coatesville.k12.pa.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CAB%20GraystoneOp%208-2-13.pdf\">http:\/\/www.coatesville.k12.pa.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CAB%20GraystoneOp%208-2-13.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Court judge will rule on whether charter school can reopen By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A decision in the long-running dispute between Graystone Academy Charter School and the Coatesville Area School District is expected by Thursday, attorneys on both sides said. On Tuesday, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert \u201cRobin\u201d Simpson heard about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,101],"tags":[2602,29,2676,1684,2601,2599],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-schools","tag-brian-leinhauser","tag-coatesville-area-school-district","tag-commonwealth-court-judge-robert-robin-simpson","tag-graystone-academy-charter-school","tag-james-ellison","tag-pennsylvania-charter-school-appeals-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}