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Article: The trouble with Apple Tree.(Commentary)(Editorials)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 14, 1999
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Like other high schools around the nation, the Washington Math Science Technology Charter School recently held its graduation ceremonies. Most of its graduates will attend college this fall despite mounting tension between parents and the Apple Tree Institute, a partner of the school. While parents and teachers were full of pride at the commencement, the joy on their faces masked their serious concerns at the school.
WMST, which initially was a school-within-a-school in Southeast, officially opened as a charter school last September after receiving a go-ahead from one of two authorizing groups - the D.C. Public Charter School Board. The problems, parents say, ...