Washington State Charter News
Update: apparently Tacoma School District is now reconsidering becoming a charter authorizer. They had paused their letter of intent because of the lack of clarity around rules but now that the Board of Ed and the Charter Commission have cleared up those issues, Tacoma may change its mind. What's interesting is their School Board had voted in unison against 1240 saying it would hurt their district's funding. Not sure what changed. They have missed the window to get authorization and would have to wait until next year to become an authrorizer. (I suspect - because I've been to the Charter Commission meetings and heard this - that several Tacoma groups who want to open charters feel they might do better with a local authorizer than the Charter Commission.) As you may have heard, Spokane School District was approved as the only other charter school authorizer in the state of Washington by the State Board of Education. Th...