SEATTLE — Washington’s statewide charter schools commission appears poised to approve two more proposals for charter schools to open in the state in 2015, after a team of independent evaluators rejected plans for two other schools.
The schools expected to be approved at a meeting next week of the Charter School Commission in Yakima are a Green Dot middle and high school in Seattle and an elementary school in Sunnyside in Central Washington.
The commission is not required to follow the evaluators’ recommendations. Earlier this year, when the commission discussed the first group of proposed charter schools, it and approved one school that didn’t get a green light from evaluators after the review process.
The two schools that did not getting positive recommendations were a proposed bilingual elementary school in or near Vancouver, Washington, and a school for children with special needs in the vicinity of Joint Base Lewis-McChord.