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Charter Yanked From Controversial Christian School

Boise Weekly | June 24, 2010

Idaho's Public Charter School Commission yanked the charter of the Nampa Classical Academy, after only one year of operating. The academy spent the better part of its freshman year debating the use of religious texts, but it was the school's dire financial straits that led to its doom.

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