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[quote=Anonymous][quote=calexander][quote=Anonymous]Just received this. [b]The phase "of color" seems to have mysteriously vanished[/b]. I'm the mother of two boys, but I gotta repeat what was said on this board when this idea was first floated...[b]what about the girls?[/b] Why aren't they opening up a college prep school at the same time for just girls? I'll be curious to see how this all plays out. Also repeating something that's been said before...starting this at the high school level is just too darn late. By then, many of these boys are YEARS behind...not a semester or two. How can this school possibly be college prep?

DCPS Stakeholder,

In the DCPS Today newsletter distributed earlier today, Chancellor Henderson provided an update around exciting new programs coming to DCPS next year. One of these updates is that a new Empowering Males High School (EMHS) will open East of the River in Fall 2016.  The EMHS, an all-male, college preparatory high school to be located at the former Ron Brown Middle School in Ward 7, will expand academic opportunities for young men in DC and ensure they graduate ready for college and career.

In the attached letter we have shared additional information about the school and the new school leadership– text from the letter can also be found below. Thank you and please pass this along to your  respective networks!

Office of Family and Public Engagement
District of Columbia Public Schools
1200 First Street, NE (12th floor)
Washington, DC  20002
T:  (202) 719 – 6613
C: (202) 997 – 9887
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By locating the school at Ron Brown, the phrase "of Color" was redundant. Was it ever going to be any other way? It wasn't worth the PR flack they'd get from concern trolls in the media and on the Hill.

DCPS has a research team and a lot of data that shows they are doing better with girls than they are with boys.  This school is an attempt to remedy that.[/quote]

I'm fully understand all of that and recall that argument when this idea was first announced. My point is that it's completely inequitable and I am concerned that they will actually lose progress with the girls by establishing a school that I'm not convinced is well conceived  to begin with. But we shall soon see.  In looking at PARCC  scores I have to wonder where they plan to find these rising ninth graders who are ready for a college prep curriculum? Do they think that students currently slated for Wilson will opt for this new school instead? [/quote]

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