By Richard Bammer

A proposed major change to ACE charter school’s status prompted several parents Thursday to question Vacaville Unified’s administrative process that, in all likelihood, will eventually result in the Hemlock Street campus, mired in red ink, to continue as an “alternative program.”

Yet at the end of a public comment period, trustees, meeting in the Educational Services Center, assured parents that they will support the program in the changed format.

In a February memo to the governing board, Superintendent Jane Shamieh noted that “progressively increasing” staff salaries and benefits are projected to create $72,000 in deficit spending for current academic year — and an estimated $100,000 next year — at the dependent charter school, which has an enrollment of 128 students.

Source: Vacaville school district leaders hear ACE parents, continue talks about charter change