Several years ago, Barbara Luna Merchan, who’s now 13, learned about a charter school that would open in Danbury. She begged her mom to enroll her when she was entering middle school.
She thought it would be an opportunity to finally feel safe at school away from bullying. She thought a smaller class size would change feeling invisible in the classroom. She thought a charter school would be a better space to keep learning English.
WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Jessika Harkay to discuss her article, \“A Danbury charter school, approved but unfunded, causes tensions,\” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.