March-Early April 2021 PDF Newsletter
Please click title to view/download/enjoy. Topics include: staff cuts at DCPS schools, feeders and school boundaries, budget policy
School Overcrowding
Addendum to Late July 2020 PDF Newsletter
Please click title to view/download/enjoy. Topics of interest include: GDS school purchases
Late July 2020 PDF Newsletter
Please click title to view/download/enjoy. Topics: GDS land purchases, petition and advocacy drive
A Memo to the DC Public Schools Chancellor
by Markus Batchelor and Ruth Wattenberg, Ward 8 and Ward 3 members of the DC State Board Of Education lead article in City Paper, Aug 3, 2017, For the full article, click here: Enough with the mandates and rosy data. Our recommendations for really raising student achievement. “Most people don’t realize it, but the high schools …
Old Hardy Update: April 7, 2019
Old Hardy Update, April 7, 2019 New estimate projects enrollment in Wilson Feeder schools will rise even more than previously predicted: by 2000 in 5 years, over 3000 in 10 years. In my last newsletter, I wrote about the new report prepared by DCPS, in cooperation with the Ward 3/Wilson Feeder Education Network, showing that most schools …