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Twenty-six little faces have melted back into the
masses of the Lincoln Public Schools. Two weeks ago
the Lincoln Free School closed.
The one-and-a-half year old experiment in
education just couldn't find the answer to two
important questions: how to get accredited and how
to meet operating expenses.
"Two weeks ago last Friday we had a parents
meeting. We had to decide whether or not to sign a
lease for the building for another year," teacher Mary
Zeman explained.
"The chances looked poor for getting
accredited we'd applied so many times before and
had been turned down for different reasons.
"Because we weren't sure what the future would
be, we decided to close the school.
"It wasn't that anybody wanted to close. We had
the kids, the teachers and the committrnent-but we
didn't have the money."
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photos by Gail Folda