37 applications to start charters

37 potential charter school founding groups submitted applications in the fall of 1997 to one of the chartering boards. Nineteen of the applications were approved - 10 by the DC Public Charter School Board and nine by the Board of Education - and 16 of the approved schools opened in 1998: ARE PCS, Carlos Rosario International PCS, Cesar Chavez PCS for Public Policy, Community Academy PCS, Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS, Friendship-Edison PCS, IDEA PCS, Maya Angelou PCS, Richard Milburn PCS, SAIL PCS, SEED PCS, Techworld PCS, Village Learning Center PCS, Washington Mathematics, Science, and Technology PCS, World PCS, and Young Technocrats PCS. Arts and Technology PCS, Hyde PCS, and Marriot PCS delayed their openings until the fall of 1999.