D.C. withholds payment to city charter schools

District officials failed to deliver to the city’s charter schools an expected $103 million payment Wednesday, causing some teachers to wake up without a paycheck.

“This is part of an ongoing outrage characterized by indifference to the reality of trying to run a charter school for D.C. public school children,” said Robert Cane, executive director of advocacy group Friends of Choice in Public Schools. Cane’s group, along with the schools, learned about the funding shortfall Tuesday evening, one day before the dollars were supposed to be in the bank.