DC Public Schools has started an “aggressive” campaign to persuade parents whose children attend one of 15 schools being closed not to abandon the school system for charter or private schools.

DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson has enlisted principals, teachers, parents and even students at the schools slated to receive students from closing schools to help recruit. Henderson said she hopes to keep 1,762 — 80 percent — of the 2,203 students at the closing schools and to increase the school system’s overall enrollment by nearly 3 percent in the coming school year.