Tommy Blog Mayor's Proposed School Closures and New Programs | Mayor's Proposed School Closures and New Programs |
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| Written by Charles Allen | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 29 November 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Page 1 of 2 Many have read the news articles outlining the Mayor’s proposed school closures and new educational programs. The Mayor proposes to close three Ward 6 schools and add programming to four schools. Below are some of the facts shared with us by the Mayor and his staff. We will provide more details as we get them. Proposed School Closures: Proposed New Programming: The Mayor’s staff shared the following information on the Ward 6 schools proposed for closure:
The Mayor has announced that there will be community meetings held in the coming weeks. His staff has tentatively scheduled meetings for December 10th, December 17th, and January 9th. Meetings will be in the evening, but specific locations and times have not been finalized. As soon as they are, we will share that with the community. UPDATE (11/30/2007): The Mayor has announced the locations for three community meetings. He is holding these meetings in the context of "planning areas". Wards 1, 2 and 6 make up one planning area (Wards 4 and 5, and 7 and 8, are the other two planning areas). The Mayor annouced the meetings will be structured in three phases: meeting #1 is to discuss information about the closures, meeting #2 is to discuss new programming in the schools, and meeting #3 is to discuss the implementation plan for the closures and new programs. Below is the calendar of meetings for the planning area that includes Ward 6: Meeting #1: Dec. 10th, 6:00-8:00 pm, Tubman Elementary School, 3101 13th Street, NW Please feel free to leave your comments and ideas below. Readers have left 11 comments. (1) Untitled 2007-11-29 12:01:00 I support the Mayor's plan to close underused schools and consolidate students in newer buildings and am happy to hear Councilmember Wells does too. As a young professional considering making DC my permanent home and raising a family here, it is time we get serious about improving and reforming the school system. (2) Untitled 2007-12-09 19:03:42 Close these schools and move on. Written by sec () (3) Untitled 2007-12-12 11:52:52 I have a question maybe someone can answer?Will this effect the abilty of our children learning?yes or no 
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' title='Click to send email'> Written by donna gresham (Registered) (4) Untitled 2007-12-12 12:03:31 I also feel the schools are already over crowded with this manifestation of the dcps,so i ask you "How much more can our children take".Right now charter and private schools more structure,no tolerance,high% of sucessful graduates than dcps for some time but fenty cares
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' title='Click to send email'>Written by donna gresham (Registered) (5) Untitled 2007-12-12 12:14:00 I have a bigger issue with the facilities than just the closing of these schools. Charter schools are proliferating like mad in the District and inceasingly the burden of their locations are "dumped" on the neighborhoods. Yet, we have a city that is virtually "littered" with schools. We also now have a situation where the Catholic Church has decided 7 of their schools are "not profitable" enough for them and the PCSB is taking them over. The taxpayers will fund the support of these facilties(because they are public schools) while DCPS (6) Untitled 2007-12-12 12:22:33 We have a city that is "littered" with schools, yet communites are bearing the burdens of inappropriate locations by Charter Schools. When is the council going to look at this issue globally and provide the leadership for facilities for all "public" school attendees? And now we see that the Public Charter School Board is going to take over 7 Catholic schools and our tax dollars are going to upkeep facilites and pay rent to the Catholic Church, while DCPS is talking about closing schools. Why, on one hand, do communities have to bear the burden of inappropriate locations and,on the other, parents lose their neighborhood school, and then our tax dollars are funding Catholic buildings and yet more schools? I just don't get it. (7) Untitled 2007-12-12 13:08:58 I thought this take over is for the best interest of our children,the schools needs renovation not closure.Do the citizens of d.c have a voice on any decision that effect our childrens lives?No
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' title='Click to send email'>Written by donna gresham (Registered) (8) Untitled 2007-12-12 13:41:02 We now have 30% of our children in Charter Schools. Michelle Rhee is talking about turning over another substantial group of schools to a charter organization and our tax dollars are bailing out Catholic Schools that will turn charter. My question is: Is the grand plan by Mayor Fenty and Michelle Rhee to turn the whole city charter? (9) Untitled 2007-12-12 17:04:37 Washington DC public schools have been an embarrassment for decades. ANY change in the status quo of DCPS is worth taking a look at. (10) Untitled 2007-12-12 17:30:39 You are right.....as long as it is regulated fairly. |
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