By: Khalifa Gopaul
Source: South Florida Times
After a decade of service to Palm Beach County’s disaffected youth, the students and faculty of the Joseph Littles-Nguzo Saba Charter School, is hoping to weather a storm of financial uncertainty.
The school for at-risk youth has been unable to make its rent payments. School founder Amefika Geuka said he believes the school will continue to defy the odds, as it has in the past.
He said the school’s financial issues are a result of inadequate funding from the state, along with a number of severe budget cuts this year. “Someone needs to question the Palm Beach County School District as to why they have not opted to exercise their discretion to share local school tax dollars for buildings with charter schools,” he said.
Officials with the Palm Beach County School District, however, see it differently.
