State’s charter-school era begins with Seattle elementary
Source: Seattle Times
Like teachers across Seattle, Laurie Reddy spent Tuesday morning making sure her first-grade classroom was cheerful and organized for Wednesday’s first day of school.
But Wednesday isn’t just the start of another school year for Reddy and the rest of the staff at First Place Scholars, which has for 25 years served homeless students.
Instead, it marks the school’s conversion from a private school into a public one — as the very first charter school to open in the state of Washington.
On Tuesday, to the cheers of staff, alumni, volunteers and charter-school advocates, a recent First Place graduate and his mother, both formerly homeless, cut an oversized red ribbon across the front of the school, located in the former Odessa Brown medical clinic in the Central District.
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