<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><ul class="" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:none;width:656px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><li id="art-tit" class="" style="border-width:2px 0px 0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(26,122,191);margin:10px 0px;padding:15px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:none;clear:both;width:656px"><h1 style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:36px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.15;vertical-align:baseline">Proposal for state's first Native American language charter school does not advance</h1></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><ul class="" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:none;width:656px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><li class="" id="contents" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:none;text-align:left"><div id="pagination1" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:mgagne@heraldnews.com" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;outline:0px;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Michael Gagne</a> <br>Herald News Staff Reporter </span><br><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Posted Oct. 2, 2014 @ 5:30 pm<br>Updated at 5:34 PM </span><br><br><span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span><blockquote style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(66,66,66);padding-top:10px!important">MALDEN — A proposal that would have established the state’s first charter school to immerse students in a Native American language will not move forward.<br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(66,66,66);padding-top:10px!important">However, a charter school previously proposed for Fall River that's now being proposed for Brockton is among the list of five groups that have been invited to submit final applications, according to a media release Tuesday from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.<br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(66,66,66);padding-top:10px!important">The proposed kindergarten-to-Grade 5 Weetumuw Wôpanâak Charter School that would have opened in Falmouth in August 2015 was not on that list. If it had been approved, enrollment would have been open to students in Cape Cod, and Plymouth and Bristol counties, with Somerset, Swansea, Westport and Taunton listed among the potential sending communities.<br><br><blockquote style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;padding-top:10px!important">Access full article below: </blockquote><div><a href="http://www.heraldnews.com/article/20141002/NEWS/141008644/11661/NEWS">http://www.heraldnews.com/article/20141002/NEWS/141008644/11661/NEWS</a><br></div></blockquote></div></li></ul></div></div>