A group of D.C. students will be able to pay for their Metro trips with their student identification cards starting next week. Students at the School Without Walls are part of a pilot program to test loading their subsidized transit passes onto the D.C. One Card. They have been signing up online this week in time for a May 1 start.

If all goes well, every D.C. public middle and high schooler will use the cards for getting around the city when school starts in the fall. Then charter and private school students eventually will get them, too.