Tuesday, December 22, 2009

D.C.'s City Collegiate Public Charter School plans to close - washingtonpost.com


D.C.'s City Collegiate Public Charter School plans to close - washingtonpost.com:

"A four-year-old D.C. charter school plans to close at the end of June because of falling enrollment and financial concerns.

Officials with City Collegiate Public Charter School, a middle school in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, told the D.C. Public Charter School Board of the plans Monday evening.

'There's no right time to close a school, but we've looked at next year, and we believe we would not have the enrollment, the per-pupil funding that we'd need,' said Julie Klingenstein, co-chairman of the school's board of trustees. The school had budgeted for 100 students but has only 70, she said, suggesting that rapid turnover in school leadership hurt enrollment."