Help Bring a Dual-Language Middle School to SE DC: Sign Our Petition Supporting the Expansion of Shirley Chisholm ES.

[Anonymous]

Chisholm Elementary is a high-demand, arts integrated, dual-language school with a diverse student body and a strong academic program. However, families face a major challenge - there is no nearby DCPS dual-language middle school for students to continue their bilingual education. As a result, many families are forced to:

• Leave DCPS entirely, seeking bilingual options in charters or other jurisdictions.
• Commute across the city, an unsustainable burden for working families.
• Abandon bilingual education, losing the years of investment in language development that DCPS has supported.

Currently the only DCPS and PCS dual-language middle schools are in NW. The Chisholm community is advocating to expand our school during our modernization (set to begin in SY26) to include a middle school so that not only our students, but students from surrounding dual-language schools such as Houston, Stokes, and Mundo Verde might have more opportunities to continue their dual-language education beyond elementary school. We have a unique opportunity to build sustainable, equitable, and high-quality middle school pathway and we are urging DCPS to close this education gap.

Please sign our petition today to show your support and share with other members of your community. If you have any questions or ideas that may help our efforts, I would love to hear them!

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