Posts by KOHP

On December 24, 2020, DC executed a lease extension at the Old Hardy School with the Lab School. The extension was not publicly revealed until last week, when Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn answered a question at a meeting of the Ward 3 Education Network. The amended lease document is below. The lease agreement…

(From Ruth Wattenberg’s Newsletter) A better, cheaper solution to long-ignored school overcrowding Back Story: Every DC Public school in the Wilson HS feeder area is projected to be overcrowded within the next 5-7 years.  Ten of 15 schools are already at 100% capacity or beyond! Most of the elementaries have already had to curtail their pre-k 4 programs; none…

Dear Deputy Mayor Kihn, I wanted to reach out to you in advance of our upcoming meeting on June 2nd to discuss the proposed new elementary school in Foxhall. As you know, for the past several years, I, along with a number of Ward 3 parents and education advocates, having been urging DCPS and the…

The Mayor released her proposed budget today, and it contained a big surprise. The Mayor is proposing to create a new public elementary school at the Hardy Park site — next to the Old Hardy building, which would remain with the Lab School. In other words, the Mayor proposes two freestanding schools on the same site.…

Seven is a magic number on the Council, as there are 13 members and a majority is needed to move legislation. There are a lot of parallels between the campaign to keep Shaw and the campaign to keep Old Hardy public. At the core of both is the failure of DCPS and the Mayor to make…

Although this Coalition is focused on restoring the Old Hardy School building to public education use, the enrollment projections contained within the Deputy Mayor for Education’s Master Facilities Plan point to a looming crisis that will impact the city as a whole. If you care about the health of the DC public school system, take…

At its April meeting the Hearst Elementary School PTA voted to join the Keep Old Hardy Public coalition. The Hearst LSAT had earlier voted to join. That brings the coalition to twelve members: ANC 3D, ANC 3E, the Palisades Citizens Association, Glover Park Citizens Association, Spring Valley Neighborhood Association, Key Elementary School PTO, Stoddert Elementary…

At last night’s meeting ANC 2E, which represents the area around Hyde Elementary School and Hardy Middle School, passed a resolution calling on DCPS, the DME and the DC Council “to begin taking concrete steps to address the overcapacity issues in the feeder pattern, and resolves that they should defer any actions on the disposition…

At its March 14 meeting, ANC 3E passed “A Resolution Regarding Overcrowding in Schools in the Wilson High School Feeder Pattern.” They endorsed the conclusions of the Crowding Working Group, called on the DME, DCPS and the DC Council to find ways to address school crowding, and included the following language: “Be It Further Resolved That,ANC…

The PTA of Horace Mann Elementary School has voted to join the Keep Old Hardy Public coalition! We’ll add their logo to our list of sponsors as soon as we can.