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Two charter school operators, Mater Academy and Somerset Academy, have filed notices to share campuses with two Sarasota County public schools.

Sarasota County Schools plans to challenge the notices, citing its own recently approved plan to boost enrollment and utilization at the schools.

On the very first day they could, two different charter school operators filed notices Tuesday to compete for unused space on the same Sarasota County public campuses by taking advantage of controversial changes to state law .

Mater Academy and Somerset Academy notified the school district they both intend to “co-locate” at Brookside Middle School and Emma E. Booker Elementary under Florida’s Schools of Hope legislation.

That’s despite district plans approved by the school

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