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TEMECULA: Financial problems, mismanagement doomed charter school

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BY MICHELLE L. KLAMPE

STAFF WRITER

mklampe@pe.com

Published: 11 March 2012 09:08 PM

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Temecula’s Context Middle School was billed as a small learning environment where teachers would emphasize how lessons related to the real world.

When it opened in August, the charter school set out to focus on technology and the arts, with dozens of laptops for students and music lessons during and after school.

Less than six months and more than $800,000 in taxpayer dollars later, Context was gone.

It joins a list of 26 other Inland charter schools that have closed or