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[quote=Anonymous]The other SWS thread seems to be bogged down over middle school and IB Ludlow-Taylor issues, so here's a new one.

Anybody else get to the open house this morning?  It started in the basement at Ebenezer's Cafe, then moved to the temp facility, where visitors could wander in and out of PreK4, K and 1st grade classrooms freely, really nice.  I learned a few things:

*The only preference they're offering for the fall is sibling preference (if you read otherwise on MOTH, incorrect).  They will have 30-32 PreS3 spots for the first time, two reserved for special needs kids.  Of the 30 remaining, 15-18 will be for siblings.  Evil lottery, but not one to be dominated by IB Peabody/Watkins parents at any rate.

*They aren't going to change the name, too much hassle starting a new non-profit to do it and they don't want to hurt their "brand."

*They aren't planning to renovate extensively at the Prospect Learning Center (9th-10th and F St.) location for the fall, but are going to knock down walls to create larger classrooms, taking 3 classrooms and getting two out of them on both the ground and second floors.

*They principal and the teachers have been fighting DCPS tooth and nail to offer neighborhood preference for some part of Capitol Hill, not clear which part yet.  Neighborhood preference is their compromise position - they're resigned to the fact that they won't be given an IB population.  They told DCPS that one of their conditions for continuing the program at the new location was neighborhood preference, but DCPS is resisting.  By lottery time in early 2014, the decision on the lottery set up will have been made.  In a private conversation, the principal encouraged me to suggest that Hill families who want neighborhood preference organize and rally, talk to Tommy Wells, do whatever.

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