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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few questions. Sorry if these have been addressed elsewhere.

Are there two separate issues: Fillmore as a physical space and Fillmore educators themselves?

Re: staff, River Terrace is a special education school that, like West, has Fillmore [u]teachers[/u] go to their building in Ward 7. The kids do not go to the Fillmore [u]space[/u] in NW.

Re: space, Ross is less than 1 mile from 3 elementary schools with onsite arts education. Couldn't the renovated Marie Reed, Garrison, or SWW Francis-Stevens accommodate Ross students without a 20 minute bus ride each way?

Key and Stoddert seem to have the most pressing space issues. What about putting 5th grade from those 2 schools in Fillmore space at Hardy? Could that free up space for PK-4th and onsite arts at Key and Stoddert?

I'm not familiar with all of the logistics. But it seems odd to connect Fillmore in the Hardy space as a support for West, Ross, and River Terrace.

(Please don't tell me the 5th graders would somehow be at risk from being in the same building as 6th-8th graders. That's ridiculous.)

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These are all excellent suggestion that should be explored.  Although Franciss Stephens has only one art room, your point that DCPS should be shopping around for other space is spot on. That is if they plan to stop funding it, which is always the question, they still have to fund arts at the end of the day... just where.

And if Hardy really does expand, but where is the evidence that the middle school really needs the space?

The busing is really not a problem. [/quote]

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