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Robby Korth: So how has how has missing out on this money affected your charter school district?
Chris Brewster, Superintendent Santa Fe South Charter Schools and President Oklahoma Public Charter School Association
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Chris Brewster: We began our school in a church basement and then progressed to an old YMCA and then expanded into a school district site that had been surplused that was built in 1906, we built in Early Childhood Center and an old armory and a sixth grade center and a grocery store So literally for 20 years, charter schools like Santa Fe schools have had no way financially to expand facilities to even a modicum of equality. But generally, charter schools have to take the slice of the general fund that we have and pay for rental facilities, maintenance, we can’t afford busses, we can’t afford band uniforms and computers, all of those have to come from general funds that were originall