AEROSTEM Academy gains charter status in Sutter County
With closure a real possibility, Chris Mahurin and the rest of the staff at AEROSTEM Academy were left wondering if their objective of introducing Native American artifacts preserved in a wall case at the Silver Dollar Saloon.
“I’m working on a historic drink menu so younger people can look up the name of a drink and get a little history lesson,” Ferrie said. “They’ll include things like the Cotton Rosser, a Crown Royal drink, an Ellis students to the need for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge was going to continue.
A few weeks back, those concerns were allayed as the Sutter County Superintendent of Schools’ board unanimously
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There are artifacts from Native American tribes, a hand-carved Brunswick back bar and a Winchester Repeating Arms bullet chart – which approved the academy’s charter petition, which occurred weeks after being denied by Yuba City Unified School District’s board.
Coupled with recent news of finding a temporary location and being awarded a $475,000 planning and implementation
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Ferrie says is one of two in existence.
“The other one is at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, and we’ve reached out to them to get more info about it,”he said. grant through the state, the future of the academy went from glum to bright in a span of just a few weeks.
“We’ve been working on this program for years, so to have
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