I'll go into a longer blog post on this later, but six new charter schools proposed for Wake County are still in the running to open for the 2014-15 school year.

Last month, the state Office of Charter Schools passed 42 of 69 applicants for further screening by the Public Charter School Advisory Council. There's been some controversy about how the 27 were rejected.

The six in Wake that made the initial cut are:

Nine charter schools in Wake County are among the 70 applicants statewide who made Friday's application deadline for permission to open in the 2014-15 school year.

We'll have to wait until potentially the end of this week to actually view the applications. But this list shows that the field includes schools named Cardinal Charter, Dynamic Community Charter, Filmore Academy Charter School, James Madison Academy, Prep 360 Academy, The Platinum School, Wake Forest Charter Academy, Wisdom Academy and Envision Science Academy.

Things may have changed from when they filed their letters of intent in January.

The groups that want to open charter schools in Wake County for the 2014-15 school year represent a variety of different interests and offer a wide range of programming options.

As noted in today's article, 13 schools are proposed for Wake, out of a group of 28 for the Triangle for 2014. Previous reports about 14 new schools in Wake were wrong. I'll explain more in the post.

Those who filed letters of intent weren't required to provide information on their mission statement, grade structure, student projections and target population. All that will come from the application due March 1.