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High court backs Marlborough charter school
By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a decision that allowed a public charter school specializing in math and science to open in Marlborough.
The high court unanimously ruled that the state Board of Education properly granted a charter to the Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School.
School committees in Marlborough, Maynard, and Hudson had sued the board, claiming that it should not have allowed the school to file a revised charter application without allowing time for public comment. The committees also claimed that organizers of the academy failed to show the region needed the charter school.
Superior Court Judge Stephen E. Neel had rejected those claims and ruled that the plaintiffs had no right to judicial review. The school has a charter for grades 6 through 12 and currently draws 420 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders from the three communities that filed the suit, as well as Clinton, according to Anatoly Darov, a lawyer for the school.
