“We’ll never get in here,” Crystal sighed, sizing up the crowd at the Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School booth, a Chinese-English immersion program. Taylor Johnson, an eighth-grader at Democracy Prep Congress Heights Public Charter School, had different priorities at EdFest. The following school year, 2018-19, she and Todd, who goes by T.J., would be in high school. In New York, which has the nation’s largest public school district, high school choice is mandatory. That was good enough for the Golidays, and they kept the school at the top of their My School DC list.

Source: Washington Post March 20, 2019 17:15 UTC