Overcrowding and lack of space in Ward 3 Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of space city wide. Redraw the lines before opening any new DCPS schools.

A boundary adjustment was just done--they're not going to redo it anytime soon.

They don't have to radically redraw the boundaries. There are tons of OOB spaces in Ward 3 elementary schools. Just adjust some Ward 3 boundaries to relieve overcrowding in some schools and increase the in-bounds population in those Ward 3 schools with surplus OOB spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of space city wide. Redraw the lines before opening any new DCPS schools.

A boundary adjustment was just done--they're not going to redo it anytime soon.

There was no real movement in WOTP boundarys because parent outcry.

[Anonymous]

No more OOB's to start.Then open up schools as needed rather than selling off or renting out the school space. Oh, and fire everyone involved with the Duke Ellington fiasco (or just tell Murch they don't need a cafeteria).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tons of space city wide. Redraw the lines before opening any new DCPS schools.

A boundary adjustment was just done--they're not going to redo it anytime soon.

They don't have to radically redraw the boundaries. There are tons of OOB spaces in Ward 3 elementary schools. Just adjust some Ward 3 boundaries to relieve overcrowding in some schools and increase the in-bounds population in those Ward 3 schools with surplus OOB spots.

They shouldn't be sending any new children to overcrowded OOB elementary schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No more OOB's to start.Then open up schools as needed rather than selling off or renting out the school space. Oh, and fire everyone involved with the Duke Ellington fiasco (or just tell Murch they don't need a cafeteria).

One good thing (perhaps the only one) with Trump's victory is that the FBI and Department of Justice public integrity unit might be more likely to take a look at the Ellington construction fiasco and astronomical cost overruns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solutions:

--Add additional space.
--Get rid of PK classrooms.
--Shrink boundaries
--Open a new elementary school (or one devoted just to Early Education) in Ward 3 to take off some of the pressure.
--Leave as is and suffer through knowing that the bubble will pass.

Adjust boundaries slightly and reduce out of boundary enrollment. Eaton and especially Hearst are majority OOB schools. Even as inboundary enrollment has increased, DCPS has been slow to ratchet back OOB enrollment. By adjusting Janney and Murch boundaries slightly, some of the overcrowding pressure could be removed from those schools, with more local population shifted to Hearst and Eaton. By reducing OOB enrollment, this also takes some pressure off of the middle schools (Hearst feeds to Deal) and Wilson.

+1 this should be done before anything

[Anonymous]

Make more schools throughout the city better, safer, more attractive, and diverse and out of boundary students may choose other schools to attend instead of Ward 3 schools. Throw in good public transportation, too. Maybe when the Southwest Wharf is built, developers and business men will toss money to nearby schools and make those schools the coveted ones.

Also, the District is getting so expensive to live in that young people with families might move to the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Old Hardy aside, where can a new elementary school be place? Is there an office building that could be used?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Old Hardy aside, where can a new elementary school be place? Is there an office building that could be used?

OOB seats and redrawing boundaries aside as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solutions:

--Add additional space.
--Get rid of PK classrooms.
--Shrink boundaries
--Open a new elementary school (or one devoted just to Early Education) in Ward 3 to take off some of the pressure.
--Leave as is and suffer through knowing that the bubble will pass.

The potential to open new elementary schools is something to discuss. Potential spaces for new elementary schools is another. And also ask Mary Cheh why she thought it was important to support an "emergency" vote to give the public school space from the ex-Hardy building to a private school at the sweetheart rate of 15K per month for the next 25 years without public comment (see the gargantuan thread) and how she knows that ex-Hardy space wouldn't be a good space for a public elementary school?
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/606702.page

Please do. Please ask Mary about this! And I'm so confused... Where is this building that went to LAB/sweetheart deal? Not hardy on Wisconsin???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solutions:

--Add additional space.
--Get rid of PK classrooms.
--Shrink boundaries
--Open a new elementary school (or one devoted just to Early Education) in Ward 3 to take off some of the pressure.
--Leave as is and suffer through knowing that the bubble will pass.

The potential to open new elementary schools is something to discuss. Potential spaces for new elementary schools is another. And also ask Mary Cheh why she thought it was important to support an "emergency" vote to give the public school space from the ex-Hardy building to a private school at the sweetheart rate of 15K per month for the next 25 years without public comment (see the gargantuan thread) and how she knows that ex-Hardy space wouldn't be a good space for a public elementary school?
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/606702.page

Please do. Please ask Mary about this! And I'm so confused... Where is this building that went to LAB/sweetheart deal? Not hardy on Wisconsin???

Q street between Foxhall and MacArthur -- Hardy Park.

It was Hardy School from 1935 to 1996. In 1996 Hardy moved to Wisconsin Avenue.

[Anonymous]

That's what I thought. Thats a sweet building. Why couldn't that be a new middle school or public charter?? I DONT get it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's what I thought. Thats a sweet building. Why couldn't that be a new middle school or public charter?? I DONT get it!

Nobody does. So ask Mary Cheh your Ward 3 rep why she voted for it and ask her to give interested public and charter schools the option to bid as well (for the low price they were proposing to charge Lab, I bet many schools will be interested).

[Anonymous]

Hearst PK has barely any OOB as it is, things have changed quickly. I would guess next year is all IB. Just a guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make more schools throughout the city better, safer, more attractive, and diverse and out of boundary students may choose other schools to attend instead of Ward 3 schools. Throw in good public transportation, too. Maybe when the Southwest Wharf is built, developers and business men will toss money to nearby schools and make those schools the coveted ones.

Also, the District is getting so expensive to live in that young people with families might move to the suburbs.

Im an EOTP parent of preschooler so no real dog in your fight but you are almost on to something. If they want more parents around the city to choose their IB then they have to bring back tracking, gifted classes or at a minimum pull the kids who are struggling out of grade level classes by 2nd grade. We are in our IB for preschool and our kid is actually having a great year but like every other high income family in her class we are playing lottery because we see whats on the horizon. Hello we see it NOW in some ways. when the principal admits there are kids in 3rd grade who still struggle with the basics, like letters and number, no way I am wasting my kids time in that class. So we play lottery or move WoTP and further crowd your schools. Honestly, tracking, test in etc would solve about 75% of DCPS problems. But it will never happen politically so Ward3 has kids in packed schools, other EoTP parents with kids in Preschools but desperate to lottery elsewhere.