Desperate families losing education options in Washington state

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“He was just getting angry and frustrated. Crying every day. Stomach aches. Chronically ill. Biting his fingernails until his fingers bled,” Deanne Hilburn told the Washington Examiner about her son Austin’s experience in a public school in Washington state. “He was very stressed.”

Then Austin got the opportunity to attend Excel Public Charter School, in Kent, Wash.

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