Summary:

– OKC Board rescinds charter for stalled Montessori school.

– Founders failed to secure facility or staff for 2025 opening.

– Other Montessori programs, including P3 Urban, moving forward.

OKLAHOMA CITY — What would have been Oklahoma City’s first public Montessori school is now defunct.

The Oklahoma City Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to rescind its charter contract with Oklahoma Public Montessori Initiative . The rescission is a mutual agreement with the charter school, which failed to complete the necessary steps to open as planned for the 2025-26 academic year.

The Oklahoma City board agreed to authorize the school’s founding contract in November 2023, despite Oklahoma City Public Schools administrators deeming the charter application as “insufficient

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