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BOCA RATON, Fla., April 28 /PRNewswire/ — The Boca Raton Charter School, the city’s only International Baccalaureate Candidate School, has retained TransMedia Group to make public an unyielding landlord’s threats to evict its entire student body of 122 elementary school children on the eve of their graduation from the once rat-infested property he leased to them.
The Boca Raton Charter School, a not-for-profit elementary school, and the city’s only official International Baccalaureate Candidate School offering the acclaimed Primary Years Programme (PYP) to a diverse student body, pre-kindergarten to Grade 6, says that through TransMedia Group, it is sending an SOS out to the community on behalf of its non-tuition paying students who are about to graduate.
Anguished school officials want TransMedia to help find an angel who’ll spare its young students the humiliation of being kicked out on the street by a landlord whom they claim put a strain on their finances by refusing to pay for repairs it had to make for the children’s health and safety.
"We turned to TransMedia to help us out of this dire situation we are in before it traumatizes our children," said Deborah Nash-Utterback, Principal of Boca Raton Charter School.
School administrators claim the landlord took advantage of a situation in which he acted as an attorney in another school eviction case, then exploited the opportunity by buying this property and leasing it to that school at a higher rent, which may have constituted unethical conduct under rules governing attorneys.
The Boca Raton Charter School later took over the lease assigned to them by the landlord and attorney, Steven B. Greenfield.
In February 2006, shortly after moving into the property at 414 NW 35th St. leased from Greenfield’s company Commercial Boca Properties, Inc., besieged charter school officials said they discovered it was infested with rats and in a deplorable and unsafe condition with roof leaks, then lightning destroyed the fire alarm system that is functional but still not meeting city code, which ultimately put the non-tuition school in a financial bind.

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