Charter School Advocacy Agenda

Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) is now the DC Charter School Alliance!

Please visit www.dccharters.org to learn about our new organization and to see the latest news and information related to DC charter schools.

The FOCUS DC website is online to see historic information, but is not actively updated.

 

FOCUS has the following advocacy priorities:

Facilities

  • Freeing up underutilized DCPS school buildings for DC students attending public charter schools

Local Funding

  • Ensuring equitable funding for and access to city services such as crossing guards and school nurses for DC students attending public charter schools.

Federal Funding

  • Equitable access to federal stimulus funding
  • Improving the implementation and dissemination of charter school startup funding and other entitlement programs.

Data Collection & Transparency

  • Helping the Office of the State Superintendent of Education to develop a longitudinal data collection and dissemination system

Organizing and Engagement

  • FOCUS and the DC Association of Chartered Public Schools have joined ogether to establish the DC Charter Ambassadors Network (DC CAN). DC CAN is an initiative to organize and mobilize the families of the more than 25, 000 DC students that have chosen public charter schools to engage them in building citywide support for public charter schools.
Taxonomy upgrade extras: 
Activities / Initiatives