Proposal by a number of key influential founding parents to make WCKS a charter school.  Several public meetings and numerous hallway and parking lot conversations were devoted to considering the pros and cons of chartering WCKS.  Finally, it was time to vote.  The parents’ vote was 77% against the charter; the staff vote was 100% against the charter and in favor of remaining a “partnership school” within Poudre School District.  (While this vote settled the question of whether WCKS would become a charter school, the founding parents who wanted the charter continued to work to build support for a charter school, and eventually were able to obtain approval from the Board of Education for their proposal.  Liberty Common Charter School opened in the fall of 1997 as the first charter school in Poudre School District.  This helped relieve the growing waiting list at TCKS by allowing more students to participate in the Core Knowledge program.)