More on GWU's Anti-Charter Discrimination

Andy is righteously indignant that the George Washington University's Trachtenberg Scholarship, which provides four-year full scholarships to graduates of D.C. public high schools, excludes students who graduate from D.C.'s public charter schools. But it's even more ridiculous than that: The kids who got Trachtenberg scholarships this year hail from 4 D.C. schools: School Without Walls, Banneker, Duke Ellington, and Woodrow Wilson. Three of those schools--SWW, Banneker, and Ellington--are competitive admissions schools that accept students based on past academic performance, test scores, interviews, and, in the case of Ellington, performing arts auditions. They are NOT your typical D.C. Public School. In contrast, D.C.'s charter schools are required to take all comers, regardless of prior perfromance, and must select students with a lottery if they are oversubscribed.