56 D.C. charter schools don’t have nurses

Published December 23, 2012 5:00am ET



Less than half of the District’s public charter schools employed a school nurse this year, leading to spotty tracking of students’ allergies and inconsistent responses to injured students, school officials told The Washington Examiner.

“To me, it’s like a ticking time bomb,” said Scott Pearson, executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board.

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