Thursday, August 17, 2017 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews

The Illinois State Charter School Commission (ISCSC) voted late last month to deny the appeal of Elaine Lee, a Maywood-Broadview-Melrose Park District 89 school psychologist, who was seeking to open a new charter school this academic year.

The charter school, called Mastery Academy Charter School (MACS), would have been located at Rock of Ages Baptist Church’s T.H. Wade Center on 14th Ave. and Madison St., and would have served 135 students in grades six and seven in the fall of 2017 before growing to 225 students in grades six through eight by 2019-20.

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