Sarasota and Manatee counties’ school districts have shut the door on Schools of Hope charter operators seeking space inside public campuses — for now.
Both districts denied the Nov. 11 requests made by Mater Academy and Somerset Academy to co-locate inside four schools: Emma E. Booker Elementary and Brookside Middle in Sarasota, and the Sara Scott Harllee Center and Lincoln Memorial Middle in Manatee.
The requests were among nearly 700 filed statewide since last month by charter operators under the state’s newly expanded Schools of Hope law, according to the Florida Policy Institute…