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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]This is outrageous. There is no other word for it. I think we should try to help Murch out here.

If you follow the link in the first post of this thread, there is a request to contact Mayor Bowser and Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles to request additional funding. Connect information in here:

http://murchschool.org/contact-information-for-city-leadership/

and a sample letter is here:

http://murchschool.org/sample-letter-to-mayor-bowser-on-underfunding-of-murch-modernization/
(put this in your own words)

I know that it is easy to write Murch off as a rich, self-absorbed WotP school, but that is really not the case. I think all of us who value quality eduction should take a minute to contact Bowser and Niles on Murch's behalf. I'd also add Council Member David Grosso to the list. 
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Thanks, Jeff, and remember this ironic bit of history:

"In 1997 members of the Murch Elementary School community approached the National
Trust for Historic Preservation with concerns about the deterioration of the exterior of the
1929 school building. The Trust awarded the Murch Home and School Association a
$2500 Preservation Services Grant. The purpose of this grant was to provide a
framework for preliminary planning of an architecturally compatible new addition to the
Murch Elementary School; heighten community awareness of the historic and
architectural significance of the existing school building and the surrounding
neighborhood; and to teach students about the community history, the architecture,
historic preservation issues and the planning process.
[b]In 1999, at the urging of the 21st Century School Fund, the Murch Home and School
Association requested that the National Trust permit the Murch grant to be used to
ensure that the history and architecture of all public schools in the District of Columbia
be considered in the long-range educational facility master plan being developed by the
school system.[/b]
We thank the Murch Elementary School parents, Murch teacher Deborah Ziff Cook, and
especially principal Dr. Marjorie Cuthbert. [b]They made this report possible because of their
willingness to look beyond the many pressing concerns of their own school to the needs
of the entire district.[/b] We would also like to thank Mary Gill, principal of Murch Elementary
School from 1984 to 1998 and current chief academic officer of DCPS, for her strong
support of the early activities of this project."

The title of that report is "Replace or Modernize: The Future of the District of Columbia's Endangered Old and Historic Public Schools" May 2001[/quote]

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