School overcrowding is real and only getting worse. The City is planning a new school at Hardy Park where a school once thrived decades ago. Build it back!
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We have been asking for new schools to be built in Ward 3 to address overcrowding and the City is agrees. Two new schools, at Hardy Park and the "Old GDS" campus, are planned and we are here for it. Thank you @MayorBowser
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One slight correction. Lab owns their main campus property on MacArthur. It’s their lower school campus ON Hardy Park the Mayor leased away. @PerryStein @justinwmmoyer
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Northwest D.C. 'NIMBYs' fight proposal over new schools - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/local/edu…
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From @marycheh ‘s letter about the need for a new elementary school at Hardy. A new school will bring back universal preK to our neighborhood. @Ruth4Schools @W3EdNet @SaveHardy
Letter from CM Cheh regarding the school at Hardy Park. Excellent letter! There is a huge need for more seats. @marycheh @Ruth4Schools
marycheh.com/follow-up-lette…
The “Save Hardy Park” site is now up. This is why I can’t take these arguments seriously. The PRIMARY PROBLEM IS OVERCROWDING, not building new schools.
What a mess. The Charter Board is allowed to saturate the school market so that few schools are properly enrolled. Meanwhile, Ward 3 schools are busting at the seams. @DMEforDC, a plan would be nice.
The 5 new D.C. charter schools approved last week came after the Bowser administration sent an unusual letter to the charter board, laying out just how many empty seats are available in the city's existing middle and high schools washingtonpost.com/local/edu…
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BREAKING: Deputy Mayor for Education, @DMEforDC Paul Kihn, told the Ward 3 EdNet tonight that DCPS extended the Lab School's lease for the Old Hardy School to 2038 -- another 15 years past its current end date.
A good thread on the Council’s hearing on the re-opening of schools.
.@councilofdc public oversight roundtable is now live. @DCPSChancellor giving intro statement, says off the bat that DCPS is 'committed to clear lines of communication' (something school staff, parents have said is missing)
Watch here: dc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.…
DCPS at Hardy Park Now retweeted
The public's help is needed to identify a suspect in connection with a 2nd degree child sexual abuse offense that occurred yesterday on the 5000 block of MacArthur Boulevard, NW:
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Why Is D.C. Considering Buying a School Property From a Mysterious, Unnamed Party? washingtoncitypaper.com/news…
I'll end with stating it is right to build more schools to support an expanding population and we support an ES on this site. It will remain a mystery why the City is going lease a DCPS owned property to a private school, and then build a brand new school right next to it.
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It does appear the DCPS-owned building would be leased for decades to the private school. The new school would occupy DPR fields that currently exist.
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The 3 year planning and construction would begin this Fall in 2020. If my math is right the new school would be done for the 2023 school year. This is a huge change. I would love for people to comment on this new change.
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Then early this morning, I get an email stating the Council is voting on a budget that gives some money to Stoddert this fall to get more modular classrooms, takes $500K from Key, but includes a new Foxhall Elementary school on the Old Hardy site.
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...and building a brand new school. She asked why not keep the funding for Key and Stoddert and then budget $16 million toward renovating the DCPS-owned building on the Old Hardy site. No answer from @DMEforDC as far as I could find.
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The new school would sit on the Old Hardy site but the current private school would remain in the DCPS building, presumably with a new extended lease. @marycheh wrote a letter to DME Kihn, asking about he fiscal responsibility of taking funding from Key and Stoddert.....
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When Mayor Bowser introduced her budget it took the $40 million from Key and Stoddert that was to be spent starting Fall 2020, and added $56 million for a brand new "Foxhall Elementary" to begin planning in 2023.
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