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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]^^I kind of agree.  After all, the plans for McFarland are so sketchy.  I would not be willing to give my time to organizing and fundraising for a future school with no concrete plans.[/quote]

The Ward 4 Education Alliance - http://ward4ed.org - is working to help develop plans. Obviously, at the moment, DME and DCPS are not on the same page. The first step is to get them together. Like the poster above, I find the opportunity to help build two high-performing schools to be exciting. But, today is not the day to get pulled out of Deal and Wilson (and, luckily, that is not happening). We are very early in the process. DCPS has not even agreed to reopen MacFarland, let alone found funding for it. We need to be given more assurance about the short term and during that short term, a lot has to happen to give us confidence in the medium term. But, assuming that happens, the long term could be pretty good.
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Yes!  I think there are enough interested parties to put pressure on DCPS.  Do you know if your neighbors in Crestwood and 16th Street Heights are working with Ward 4 Education Alliance?  I got the impression that more people were interested in staying with Deal and Wilson rather than working on MacFarland and Roosevelt.[/quote]

A handful of us are working with the Ward 4 Alliance. Somehow, we didn't learn about the organization (previously called ForWard 4) until recently. Obviously, if you are given the choice of staying with Deal and Wilson or going with a nonexistent school and Roosevelt (with the baggage of its recent history), the choice is easy. But, I think there is a growing realization that MacFarland and Roosevelt have potential upsides. However, the transition is very tricky. If it is not handled correctly, it could result in Crestwood essentially abandoning DCPS altogether. Maybe not many would care, but it would be sad just the same.
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