Last night the San Diego Unified School District BOARD approved our petition to open a new K-8 public school in San Diego. The vote was 4-0 in favor!

Click to download the OTA – Charter Petition- Final.

For those not familiar with Charter Public Schools, the idea is that in return for freedom to innovate, these schools make concrete promises about what they intend to accomplish academically in their first five years. If they keep their promises the school’s Charter is renewed by the governing school board, if not …the school may be shut down or required to make changes if it wants to stay “in business.” Old Town Academy promised to be in the top 1/3 of all similar California K-8 schools, as measured by the Academic Performance Index (API).