Applicants made their cases last month for 11 new charter schools in the District to open for the 2020 school year. Other cities and states have a cap on charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately operated — that can open. The District is home to 123 charter schools, which educate nearly half of the city’s 98,000 students who attend public schools. Last year, the charter school board approved just one of four applicants that wanted to open a school. It opened an all-boys high school in 2016 and is opening a specialized high school next school year in Southeast Washington.

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2019 23:37 UTC