Board Revokes School’s Charter After 2 Deaths
The San Francisco Board of Education has revoked the charter of an alternative high school whose curriculum included an outdoors wilderness program in which two students died.
The vote Tuesday to shut down Urban Pioneer Experiential Academy came one week before its 175 students were due to start class. Supt. Arlene Ackerman asked the board to revoke the charter because of financial problems.
Ackerman initially asked the board to revoke the school’s charter June 24 over safety concerns following the March 5 deaths of students Mikhail Nikolov and Vladislav Bogomolny, both 17.
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