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is undergoing a journey of personal transformation. Long also implied that in the Gregg Tucker case, Hasz was not the one making nal decisions.

“ e former superintendent, Andrew Hasz, is going to be the head of our school. But he has gone through a rigorous — and is still going through a rigorous — trans- formation. is is such a di erent approach to the school compared to what it used to be.”

“I watched (Hasz), throughout that situation,” Long continued, “I watched how hard it was in the early days on his heart… Some of what was happening — and he would never pin this on anybody, and I’m not blaming anyone — had to do with who the principal was and who was handling those situations at the time.”

Long said he has written a one-day seminar that all Forge teachers and sta will participate in to discuss the culture of the new school and how things will be operated di erently. He added that in his opinion, Long doesn’t feel Hasz has ever discriminated against a student and added that the head of school seems open to change.

“I have watched (Hasz) coach every student of every ethnicity,” Long said. “We go to some of the communities that are mostly Hispanic or are mostly African-American. Nothing but love and grace for people. Of course, we see di erences, but he’s never treated anybody di erent, nor does he feel that he’s better than anyone.”

Finances

Faith Christian notably closed due to mounting nancial woes.

In a video posted to YouTube in December 2022, FCA Pastor Jason King said that between 1991 and 2000, FCA took out a $6.8 million loan to purchase its Carr Street campus. In 2002, Faith took out an

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