The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education received proposals this month from six groups seeking to open new charter schools as well as requests from thirteen existing charter schools to serve more students.
The Department will decide by mid-September which applicant groups to invite to submit full proposals. The final applications will be due by November 1, 2016, and Commissioner Mitchell Chester will then decide which finalists to recommend to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education for consideration in February 2017…
Continue reading the DESE press release, and check out the Globe report on the issue and their article on how the charter school ballot proposal is dividing the Democratic party.