WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KOAA) — A few months after approving a 30-year extension of the town's Merit Academy charter, Woodland Park's school board met for a special session Thursday to discuss leasing the district's middle school building to the charter.

After hours of discussion and public comment, no vote was made.

Woodland Park's school board deliberated on the pros and cons of a 30-year lease for the district's Merit Academy charter.

The lease was extended for 30 years in August, a decision many claimed was hastily made, lacked public input, and did not account for future changes to enrollment in Woodland Park.

Among those pleased with the meeting's result was parent Khurshid Rogers, who just graduated a senior from Woodland Park.

"It's for too long a term, and I don't think we have

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