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Primary Reasons Why Charter Schools Are Closing in Washington, D.C.

	School	Chartering Authority at Opening	Chartering Authority at Closing	Year Opened	Year Closed	Revocation or Relinquished	Reason
1	High Road School and Alternative Learning Center PCS	BOE	BOE	Never Opened	1996
2	Marcus Garvey	BOE	BOE	1996	1998	Revoked	Management deficiencies
3	Young Technocrats	BOE	BOE	1998	1999	Revoked	Financial and management deficiencies
4	New Vistas	BOE	BOE	1999	1999	Revoked	Financial and management deficiencies
5	Richard Milburn	BOE	BOE	1998	2002	Revoked	Financial and management deficiencies
6	Techworld	BOE	BOE	1998	2002	Revoked	Financial and management deficiencies
7	Mechanical Industrial Technical PCS	BOE	BOE	Never Opened	2003
8	Auto Arts Academy PCS	PCSB	PCSB	Never Opened	2003	Never Opened
9	Arts Explorer PCS	BOE	BOE	Never Opened	2004
10	Village Learning Center	BOE	BOE	1998	2004	Revoked	Financial and management deficiencies
11	World	BOE	BOE	1998	2002	Revoked	Financial and management deficiencies
12	Academy for Renewal in Education (ARE)	PCSB	PCSB	1998	2003	Relinquished	Voluntarily relinquished, due to issues surrounding effectiveness of special education program
13	Jos-Arz	BOE	BOE	2000	2006	Relinquished	Voluntarily surrendered their charter after their five year review resulted in a 180 day probationary period
14	Colin L. Powell PCS – First Petition	PCSB	PCSB	Never Opened	2007
15	SouthEast Academy	PCSB	PCSB	1999	2005	Revoked	Failed to meet academic and governance standards upon its five year review
16	New School for Enterprise and Development	PCSB	PCSB	2000	2006	Revoked	Failed to meet academic and governance standards upon its five year review
17	Sasha Bruce	PCSB	PCSB	2000	2006	Revoked	Financial and management deficiencies
18	Phillips Academy PCS	PCSB	PCSB	Never Opened	2007
19	Hope Academy	PCSB	PCSB	2007	2007	Relinquished	Low enrollment and subsequent financial deficiencies
20	Washington Academy	BOE	PCSB	2005	2008	Relinquished	Financial and management deficiencies
21	Tri Community	PCSB	PCSB	2001	2007	Relinquished	Voluntarily relinquished charter after PCSB initiated revocation process, due to academic and governance deficiencies
22	Colin L. Powell PCS – Second Petition	PCSB	PCSB	Never Opened	2008
23	City Lights	BOE	PCSB	2005	2009	Relinquished	Financial and management deficiencies
24	Meld Evenstart (MEI)	PCSB	PCSB	2007	2009	Revoked	Academic, governance and financial reasons
25	Barbara Jordan	BOE	PCSB	2002	2009	Relinquished	Low enrollment leading to financial insolvency
26	Academia Bilingue de la Communidad (ABC)	PCSB	PCSB	2005	2009	Relinquished	Low enrollment leading to financial insolvency
27	City Collegiate	PCSB	PCSB	2006	2010	Relinquished	Low enrollment
28	Young America Works	BOE	PCSB	2004	2010	Revoked	Financial, academic and management deficiencies
29	KAMIT PCS	BOE	PCSB	2000	2010	Revoked	Academic reasons
30	ALTA PCS	PCSB	PCSB	2005	2010	Relinquished	Voluntarily relinquished charter
31	Children’s Studio PCS	BOE	PCSB	1996	2010	Relinquished	Voluntarily relinquished charter
32	Thea Bowman Preparatory Academy PCS	PCSB	PCSB	2008	Summer 2011	Relinquished	Low enrollment
33	Nia Community Public Charter	PCSB	PCSB	2006	Summer 2011	Revoked	Academic reasons
34	The School for Arts in Learning (SAIL)	PCSB	PCSB	1998	Summer 2011	Relinquished	Financial reasons
35	IDEAL PCS – High School	PCSB	PCSB	1999	2011	Closed high school program	Academic reasons
36	William E. DOAR PCS – high school program only	PCSB	PCSB	2004	2011	Closed high school program	Academic reasons
37	Community Academy PCS – Rand campus	BOE	PCSB	2004	2012	Closed the Rand campus	Academic reasons
38	Septima Clark	PCSB	PCSB	2006	Summer 2013	Relinquished	Academic reasons – Merged with Achievement Prep
39	Howard Road Academy PCS – Pennsylvania Avenue	PCSB	PCSB	2000	2013	Closing MLK and Penn. Ave Campuses. LEA Eliminating grades 1-8	Academic reasons
40	Howard Road Academy PCS – Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Middle School	PCSB	PCSB	2000	2013	Closing MLK and Penn. Ave Campuses. LEA Eliminating grades 1-8	Academic reasons
41	Community Academy – middle school	BOE	PCSB	2004	2013	Closing the middle school	Academic reasons
42	IDEA – middle school	BOE	PCSB	1998	2013	Closing the middle school	Academic reasons
43	Imagine Southeast PCS	PCSB	PCSB	2008	2014	Relinquished	Academic reasons — Democracy Prep to operate
44	Maya Middle PCS – Middle School	PCSB	PCSB	2008	2014	Closing the middle school
45	Arts and Technology PCS	PCSB	PCSB	1999	2014	Revoked	Academic reasons – KIPP DC to operate
46	Booker T Washington PCS	BOE	PCSB	1999	2014	Revoked	Academic reasons
47	Community Academy PCS – Amos III	BOE	PCSB	1998	2014	Closing the middle school	Academic reasons
48	Perry Street Preparatory – PCS (Upper School)	PCSB	PCSB	1998	2015	Closing the high school	Academic reasons
49	Hospitality High PCS	PCSB	PCSB	1999	2015	Relinquished	Academic reasons – DCPS to operate

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