Two public charter schools are a step nearer to opening, which would make them the first such institutions in Montgomery County, where past efforts to establish charters have been stymied.

Leaders of the proposed Global Garden school and Crossways Community Montessori applied to the county’s school district by the early March deadline — the first groups to have done so in nearly a decade.

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