One of the city's oldest charter schools is so broke that it can't make payroll

The finances of one of the first charter schools in the nation’s capital have grown so dire that its survival is threatened and its ability to pay teachers in doubt, a financial analysis shows.

Washington Mathematics Science Technology Public Charter High School — founded in 1998 soon after charter schools were allowed in the District — could lose its license if it does not present a convincing plan to regulators demonstrating how it will remain financially viable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/one-of-the-citys-oldest-charter-schools-is-so-broke-that-it-cant-make-payroll/2018/03/13/81b775d2-264b-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?utm_term=.a22764f68ab9