Baker district, BESE tussle over campus where local board has placed K-5 students

BAKER — The Baker School District says the state board that oversees public education took too long to review plans to improve academic performance among its younger students and cannot now let the Recovery School District lay claim to a facility where children from kindergarten to fifth grade go to school.The district says it submitted improvement plans to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education last fall, but that by Feb. 12 it had heard nothing back. The system's board then