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[quote=Anonymous]Ward 6 families have recognized that we have excess middle school capacity and are aggressively working to help encourage more families to take advantage of the local, neighborhood options available.  We have been working with the leadership of all three local middle schools to increase programming, raise academic standards, and recruit students to the schools.  That said, DCPS is currently conducting a study of school capacity and neighborhood needs.  Once that study is complete, I would expect that Ward 6 may have to face some tough choices.

At last week's City Council Roundtable on Middle Schools, Ward 6 parents and Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells called for Ward 5 to get a stand alone Middle School. There was consensus that the Pre-school through 8 model was not implemented well and that sufficient resources weren't available to make that model work well.

Ward 6 schools are subject to the same per-pupil funding as other schools across the city. They get more resources because there are more students.  However, a majority of students in Ward 6 middle schools do not live in Ward 6 and we need to reinvest funding into the neighborhoods where students live.

DCPS recently hired an individual to spearhead the development of a Ward 5 Middle School plan. That individual is working to meet with Ward 5 families and develop a plan for a stand alone Ward 5 middle school.[/quote]

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