SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle area charter school is closing at the end of the school year next month, the second to quit since publicly funded, privately run schools began operating in Washington state five years ago.
Thelma Jackson, board chairwoman of Soar Academy in Tacoma, said about 75 percent of its 200 students had made arrangements as of April to transfer to another school for the following term.
Jackson said Soar wasn’t operating on a deficit, but the budget forecast going forward was dire.