Sunnyside Charter School to be Decided Thursday

Washington's statewide charter schools commission plans to vote Thursday on a group of schools that want to open in 2015.

A team of independent evaluators gave their endorsement to two proposals and said two more were not ready for approval.

The schools expected to be approved at a meeting at Yakima Valley Community College include A Green Dot middle and high school in Seattle and an elementary school in Sunnyside in Central Washington.

The commission is not required to follow the evaluators' recommendations. Earlier this year, when the commission discussed the first group of proposed charter schools, it approved one school that didn't get an endorsement from evaluators after the review process.

The state's first charter school opened this fall. Another eight schools are already set to open in 2015, including one approved earlier this month in Spokane.