The startup Whittle School enrolls fewer than 130 students in a cavernous building that was once envisioned as a futuristic campus for more than 2,000.
“It has been 7 years since we began work on the school and this is the most worried I have ever been that we may not be able to continue and to fulfill what we all set out to do,” Whittle wrote to his D.C. community. He appealed to investors, friends and families for emergency help.
“We’ve had the opportunity to start a lot of things,” including a debate team and student government, said Charlotte Weir, 18, another senior. “There’s a lot of value in learning those lessons. For me, it definitely helped me get to college.” She plans to attend the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
When Whittle School opened, it sought to make a splash in a regional market with numerous tuition-charging competitors, from Catholic schools to Sidwell Friends School to Edmund Burke School, just across Connecticut Avenue in the Van Ness neighborhood. Some families were lured to Whittle’s progressive vision of education. They were unfazed by its for-profit structure, as a business incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
In 2012, Whittle led the opening of Avenues: The World School in New York, another private school venture. He left three years later, for reasons he declined to explain, but Avenues continues to operate in Manhattan and has programs in Sao Paulo in Brazil and in Shenzhen.For his latest big idea, Whittle assembled a high-powered team of educators and advisers.
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