Claude Presley, left, Samuel Korpoi and Robert Johnson, faculty members at National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter School, rally last week outside the D.C. Public Charter School Board offices before a vote to revoke their school’s charter. So she turned to a charter school, landing on Washington Mathematics Science Technology Public Charter High for her daughter, an aspiring film director and math teacher. Kamilah Wheeler speaks to the D.C. Public Charter School Board during a hearing about closing National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter School. Last year, D.C. Public Schools took over Excel Academy, an all-girls school in Southeast Washington that the charter board shut down. Upon graduation, she said many of the students attend Duke Ellington School of the Arts — the traditional public school system’s renowned application arts school.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2019 01:07 UTC