Schools

County Trips Up Charter School Plans

In two months, the new school year begins. But will the students at Montgomery County's first charter school have a building?

Montgomery County Public Schools and Crossway Community are opening a Montessori charter school together. The first day of school is August 27.

However, the building plans have hit a snag, as the Parents Coalition of Montgomery County points out in a recent blog post.

Montgomery County's Department of Housing and Community Affairs is now saying that MCPS and Crossway do not have approval to modify the building blueprint for the new charter school on the old Pleasant View Elementary School site in Wheaton.

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According to the deed, as the Parents Coalition also points out, if Montgomery County chooses to use the elementary school property for anything other than the Pleasant View multi-family development, then the property reverts to the Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission.

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