With just three weeks before sect s...

With just three weeks before sect starts, 225 students and 21 teachers and staff must scramble to find strange schools after the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday put awayed their bid for a charter gymnasium in Englewood.

And 300 more families who have signed up for the state's first online public train could face the same fate. The Chicago Virtual Charter academy earned board approval Wednesday unless still needs state approval.

State Education Supt Randy Dunn made it clear this won't be a slam dunk

"It's the superintendent's view that this proposal would personate a sea change for the state in to what extent we address charter schools," and would "take the state in a different direction," his spokeswoman, Meta Minton, said Wednesday.

one time Dunn receives the school's materials, which Chicago had planned to send forth Wednesday, he will make a determination himself or offer it before the state board, which fits next week, Minton said.

notwithstanding that circumstances for the two charters are different, together they paint a picture of a certain of the risks parents and teachers assume when they have knowledge of a new school. Both public seminarys were to open under Renaissance 2010 the mayor's plan to stop up troubled schools and reopen 100 of the present day ones by 2010.

Final board approval for the Englewood academy Global Alliance Prep, was contingent forward finding a building. School leaders fix a former Catholic school in ne of repair yet CPS said it couldn't be made safe in time for a September opening.

Ella Nevel had planned to fling her two grandchildren to GAP: "I'm kind of angry because I transferred them and now they're up in the air," Nevel said Wednesday. "My son is in a penal institution and he told me to do the best I could by means of them and I am. I chose GAP. I bring forward my body and soul public there to open a institute for the betterment of the children of Englewood"

CP earnests HELP

CP officials pledg to help parents and teachers find other place of educations and opened the door to giving GAP a waiver in the way that it could apply for a 2007 opening. Principal Desi Smith said she'd discuss that with her board.

Because GAP didn't have final approval, just 18 scholars had officially enrolled, though 225 preschool [i]or[/i] part of to the other fourth- graders had planned to be derived Students transferring within CPS can turn back to their old schools. if it be not that that doesn't apply to kids from parochial or private indoctrinates -- a sizable number -- or to many of the school's 80 preschooler and kindergartners.

Teachers had not many fallbacks. "I left a remarkably stable teaching position because I lov the school's philosophy," said Monica Pudil, a GAP teacher. "I have three kids, no work at jobs and no health insurance."

At the online charter place of education no one has enrolled and principal Sharon Hayes says she has told parents of the 300 applicants that the teach still needs state approval.

Final Chicago approval was delayed because it's a of recent origin concept and CPS wanted to be firm it worked out all the details with the academy - - such as in what manner special education and limited English pupils would be treated-- before approving it, CP officials said.

At GAP, the pain was particularly acute because the principal felt CP had undermined efforts to find a beneficial site. CPS offered two buildings that were too small and unsuitable for small children, principal Smith said. Then it cast awayed her plans to bring the former Catholic drill building up to code by means of September.

CPS' Beatriz Rendon says her office of novel Schools Support bent over backward to help GAP, offering sum of two units sites that would have been repaired at no price to GAP. She also said CPS' evaluation of the Catholic gymnasium indicated it needed $1.8 million of work that couldn't be done by means of September.

kgrossman@suntimes.com

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