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Mary Cheh Sends Letter to Deputy Mayor Kihn on Proposed Foxhall Elementary
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…
Read MoreMayor’s budget proposal includes $56 million for new “Foxhall Elementary”
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.…
Read MoreSeven DC Councilmembers Block Banneker Move to Shaw
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…
Read MoreCan DC’s public schools survive the coming enrollment surge?
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…
Read MoreHearst PTA Joins Keep Old Hardy Public Coalition
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…
Read MoreANC 2E Passes resolution opposing disposition of Old Hardy, urging action on Wilson feeder crowding
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…
Read MoreANC 3E votes to support the return of the old Hardy School to use as a DCPS school
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…
Read MoreMann PTA Joins Keep Old Hardy Public Coalition
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.
Read MoreNew Master Facilities Plan has dramatically higher enrollment projections for Wilson, Key, Mann
In November 2018, the office of the Deputy Mayor for Education released a Master Facilities Plan with ten-year enrollment projections. On March 24 they released an updated plan. The 2027 projection for Wilson HS has been raised from 2,100 to 2,309. This is more in line with what the DC Auditor has been projecting, and…
Read MoreDCPS Hasn’t Even Looked into Using Old Hardy
We have often heard it said that “DCPS doesn’t want the building.” We’ve heard it from councilmembers, representatives of non-DCPS city agencies, and many times from representatives or supporters of the Lab School. But there’s one place we’ve never heard it from: DCPS. Last fall we set out to see if DCPS had ever really…
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