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[quote=Anonymous]Here is some further information:

•	With 18 percent growth over the past three years, Murch is overcrowded and has only half the space that DCPS says we should have per student.  
•	Murch has not been renovated since it opened in 1929.
•	One third of Murch’s learning space is already in temporary structures, most of which do not have bathrooms or running water.
•	The vast majority of the school is not ADA compliant.
•	Murch has no cafeteria or real kitchen. Breakfast and lunch are served in the hallway and eaten in the hallway or classrooms.
•	Bathrooms and closets have been turned into staff offices over the years because of lack of space.
•	Small group work and individual testing take place in hallways and stairwells due to lack of space.
•	The city’s own Master Facilities Plan identified Murch as one of the five schools with the highest need for modernization based on facility quality. Yet the city budget funded modernizations at more than two dozen other schools this year, while delaying  construction at Murch.

Please support Murch's moderninzation!

1)	Please go to http://murchlookingforward.org/
a.	Sign the on-line petition
b.	Email the Mayor and Deputy Mayor (a draft letter is on the website)
2)	Reach out to five friends and urge them to sign the petition.
3)	Post a request on your neighborhood listserv.

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