Published 5/29/03:
http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=170060Some students from closed Costa Rican school transferred to La Verkin school
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LA VERKIN, Utah (AP) - Cross Creek Programs in La Verkin has received one or two students from the Dundee Ranch Academy, a youth behavioral management school that has been closed down by Costa Rican authorities.
It is not known how many more students will transfer to Cross Creek, said Ken Kay, president of the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, a trade organization for 11 independently owned youth behavioral management schools in Jamaica, Mexico, Costa Rica and the United States.
The students will pay $2,000 more per month or $4,000 in total per month to enroll at Cross Creek, said director Karr Farnsworth.
Peter Brennan, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica, said Dundee's owner, Narvin Lichfield, was arrested on what Costa Rican authorities considered human rights violations.
Lichfield was released last week, but a judge has ordered him to stay for six months awaiting possible criminal charges. No charges have been filed against Lichfield or WWASPS, Kay said Wednesday.
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