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[quote=Anonymous]Email blast from Ruth Wattenberg:

Please email City Council members tonight!  
     I have just learned that the City Council plans to vote tomorrow on emergency legislation that would lead DC to give away its right to use the old Hardy school, a former DCPS elementary school located on Foxhall Rd.  The school has been leased to a private school for a number of years.  This legislation would make that lease effectively permanent--for up to fifty years.  
    I cannot see how this makes sense.  Virtually every public school building in ward 3 is crowded well beyond capacity.  Schools will be (already are in some cases) faced with cutting back those programs that require classroom space, losing fields and play spaces to trailers, etc.  And, I'm hearing from members of various ANC's as well that it's critical to plan for the increased enrollments that will likely come with the increased housing development that is being considered in many neighborhoods.  This school building is the ONLY unused public school in ward 3.  We need this space.  The city should not be giving away the lease to this school--or any publicly owned school--without a clear understanding of the impact and a clear plan for how current overcrowding as well as increased future enrollments will be handled.
    
Please write to members of the City Council TONIGHT asking them to vote NO to the "Hardy School Emergency Surplus Declaration Resolution of 2016."

yalexander@dccouncil.us, 
callen@dccouncil.us, 
abonds@dccouncil.us 
jevans@dccouncil.us 
dgrosso@dccouncil.us 
Lmay@DCCOUNCIL.US 
 kmcduffie@dccouncil.us 
pmendelson@dccouncil.us 
bnadeau@dccouncil.us 
esilverman@dccouncil.us 
btodd@dccouncil.us 
rwhite@dccouncil.us 
Please cc Mayor Bowser, CM Cheh and me:
eom@dc.gov 
mcheh@dccouncil.us
ruth4schools@yahoo.com

Thanks,
Ruth Wattenberg,
Ward 3 member,
DC State Board of Education

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