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The Samoa Beach Academy — a career and technical education (CTE)
focused charter high school its founders hoped to open this fall —
withdrew their petition from the Northern Humboldt Union High School
District this week, following a recommendation to deny the charter
from district staff.
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Thursday afternoon special meeting where board members planned to
officially approve or deny the charter was obviously canceled, but
the NoHum community can expect to hear more from Samoa Beach Academy
members. In an official withdrawal letter sent to the district on
Tuesday, lead petitioner Catherine Scott wrote that her team plans to
submit a revised petition to the district “in the coming weeks,