DCPS trying to kill Fillmore again

[Anonymous]

Some (if not most) schools across the city have separate classrooms for art and music, but the Fillmore kids do not.

[Anonymous]

I hear Ellington needs more money. Gotta come from somewhere!

[Anonymous]

Well, they took $10 mil from Murch, didn't they? Then kill arts programming for elementary schoolers? Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, they took $10 mil from Murch, didn't they? Then kill arts programming for elementary schoolers? Weird.

Construction money is from the city's capital budget -- not from the annual operating budgets.

DCPS wants the arts funding to be spent inside the home school buildings - not at Fillmore. No cuts - just restrictions on how it can be spent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, they took $10 mil from Murch, didn't they? Then kill arts programming for elementary schoolers? Weird.

Construction money is from the city's capital budget -- not from the annual operating budgets.

DCPS wants the arts funding to be spent inside the home school buildings - not at Fillmore. No cuts - just restrictions on how it can be spent.

And if there is no room at the overcrowded school? How can it be "inside"?

[Anonymous]

Actually, Millard Fillmore was the only Whig president who did not die in office or get expelled from the party. So, no one tried to kill him

[Anonymous]

It would be much cheaper for DCPS to fund Fillmore, instead of expanding the schools so they are not so overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear Ellington needs more money. Gotta come from somewhere!

No lie - that's why Peggy Cooper Cafritz tried to kill Filmore back when she was chair of the school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, they took $10 mil from Murch, didn't they? Then kill arts programming for elementary schoolers? Weird.

Construction money is from the city's capital budget -- not from the annual operating budgets.

DCPS wants the arts funding to be spent inside the home school buildings - not at Fillmore. No cuts - just restrictions on how it can be spent.

And if there is no room at the overcrowded school? How can it be "inside"?

Creative uses of available space. Murch can help with that .. they had to turn a boys bathroom into the nurses office.

[Anonymous]

What is interesting to me is that as recently last month Fillmore was listed as a possible swing space for Hyde Addison.

Right hand / left hand???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be much cheaper for DCPS to fund Fillmore, instead of expanding the schools so they are not so overcrowded.

Or put another way, Fillmore allows DCPS to pack more kids into certain WOTP schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is that as recently last month Fillmore was listed as a possible swing space for Hyde Addison.

Right hand / left hand???

For swing space, were they talking about the Fillmore space on the the third floor of Hardy Middle School, or the former Fillmore Elementary School?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is that as recently last month Fillmore was listed as a possible swing space for Hyde Addison.

Right hand / left hand???

For swing space, were they talking about the Fillmore space on the the third floor of Hardy Middle School, or the former Fillmore Elementary School?

According to the H-A website: (http://www.hyde-addison.org/PTA.cfm?subpage=1153753)

1. Outline 3 options for swing site locations

a. Portable Classrooms on Duke Ellington Field

b. Portable Classrooms on the Fillmore parking lot for grades K-2;

i. Grades 3-5 will be in a dedicated space in Hardy MS

ii. Grades 3-5 will be in the old Fillmore building.

Is the Fillmore option a real viability?

a. We don’t know for sure yet. DCPS/DGS is still talking with the lease holder of the building. This is all part of the work DGS/DCPS is doing over the next 2-6 weeks in order to make a final decision.

So it looks like they're looking at both the old Fillmore and the current Fillmore space in Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Must be in Hardy because an arts focused foundation recently bought the old Fillmore school from GW. GW had taken it over from the Corcoran.