Saturday News
KING-5 did a report on our growing district. (And, if you hadn't heard, Seattle is apparently the fastest growing big city in the country. It is the 21st biggest city in the country.) KING reported that the district expects to have 60,000 students by 2020 . That's just five-and-a-half years away. In a very sad story from The Charlotte Observer, a charter school in Charlotte, NC, is closing immediately for financial reasons and now the 300+ students have to find somewhere else to finish the school year. What makes this story doubly sad is that state officials knew this charter was off-track financially almost from the start of the school year. North Carolina charter supporters pushed to get their charter cap lifted and this was one of the first of 23 schools opened that year. The state Office of Charter Schools sent staff to inspect the school in March. The team reported concerns with the instruction and the support for students ...