Proposed Amendments to Create an International IB High School at Walter Reed

The purpose of this charter amendment is to create an educational pathway for students from Washington Yu Ying Public Charter Schools (Yu Ying) along with three other language immersion public charter schools (the Member Schools) by extending these schools' charters to include secondary school (grade 6-12). Students from Yu Ying,  who study Spanish and French, and Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School (LAMB) and Mundo Verde Public Charter School (MV), who study Spanish, will receive their secondary education through a combined middle-high program operated by such Member Schools cooperatively through the DC International School (DCI), a cooperative and collaborative middle-high program satisfying the objectives of their respectively extended charters. The charter amendment obtained by Yu Ying and each of the other Member Schools will ensure that these students are able to continue their language and multicultural education through the comprehensive International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma Programmes, which are grounded in a pedagogy of inquiry, environmental stewardship, and global perspective.