Where nearly 550 low-income students involved in D.C.’s voucher program would go is a big question mark as officials decide whether to convert eight Catholic schools into public charter schools.

The proposal, which will be batted back and forth over the next two months, is to make public eight of the 12 schools in the Center City Consortium as a last resort to stave off multimillion-dollar deficits in the city’s Catholic schools.

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