“These are challenging times for charter schools,” says Cameron Curry, chief executive officer of Classical Academies (Escondido).

Curry was recently able to report renewal of Classical’s five-year charter for one of its seven campuses, Classical Academies Vista (Oceanside), but it was a circuitous, ten-year long journey. And just this month, Epiphany Prep, an Escondido charter school that has had enrollment growth to around 750 students, continue reading...