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Scholars Achieve Excellence at Impact Public Schools
Last month, Impact Public Schools, Washington state’s first “homegrown” charter public school network, released 2018-19 academic results for its flagship elementary school – Impact | Puget Sound Elementary, in Tukwila. Impact | PSE launched in...
Washington State Charter Schools Association Awarded Federal Charter School Grant
For Immediate Release: September 24, 2019 Contact: Maggie Meyers at maggie@wacharters.wpenginepowered.com or (724) 263-9826 Funds will support new, innovative school models, and replication and expansion of high-performing charters statewide...
A charter public school saved my life – and could change yours
By Karla Soto Mullins I was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, the fifth of eight children. My mother became a widow at a very young age, and when I was four years old, she had the opportunity to come to the United States so that she could provide...
Una escuela pública autónoma me salvó la vida y podría cambiar la suya
de Karla Soto-Mullins Nací en Culiacán, Sinaloa, México, la quinta de ocho hijos. Mi madre se quedó viuda a una edad muy temprana, y cuando yo tenía cuatro años, tuvo la oportunidad de venir a los Estados Unidos para poder brindarnos una vida...
Join us November 14!
Join WA Charters for our second annual Game Changers Breakfast, a fundraiser and celebration for Washington’s growing sector of innovative charter public schools. Designed to close systemic opportunity gaps, Washington’s charter public schools are...
Meet Dawit, Rainier Prep ’18 Alum
I graduated from Rainier Prep in 2018 after attending Rainier Prep for its first three years. I now attend Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire. Rainier Prep has a very friendly environment where student voices are heard. One way of this happening is...
Meet Chris.
Before I came to Summit Olympus, I didn’t really care about school. I was just doing the bare minimum to get by. My 8th grade year, I transferred from one district to another because I was getting into trouble. Then my mom’s friend told her about...
Meet George.
I’m a founding student and eighth grader at Rainier Prep. I live in Burien with my brother and our parents, who immigrated from Vietnam. My parents are constantly pushing me to be something better, to become the independent man they believe I can...
Meet Shauna.
Shauna Edwards, Founder, Lumen High School "We need to shift away from the expectation of failure to seeing teen parents as the amazing hard-working, strong adults that they are capable of becoming." As a 22-year old, I mentored a teen parent, and...