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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a) Amidon has been updated since the Brady Bunch era...see http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/content/amidon-bowen-opens-new-doors and it just had all its windows replaced.

b) Amidon is not "way underenrolled." http://dc.gov/DC/DME/Media%20Releases/newsroom_archive/Press%20Releases/Final%202013%20DC%20Public%20Education%20Plan.pdf shows a capacity of 400 students.  The DCPS profile shows 342 kids enrolled this year, and since they're taking over the 2 Appletree classrooms there should be about 40 more kids next year.  That's pretty close to capacity.  [/quote]

From your own link:

[i]Renovations alone will not turn Amidon-Bowen around, which is [b]still suffering from declining attendance over the past few years and test scores among the lowest in the city. [/b]According to DC Public Schools, only 15% of students at Amidon-Bowen met or exceeded the Washington, DC Comprehensive Assessment System (DC CAS) standards in math and 19% met, or exceeded standards in reading. As a result, the school was reconstituted before the 2011-12 school year in order to help improve performance. All faculty members had to reapply for their jobs and a new principal, Izabela Miller was hired. Advocacy from organizations such as the PTA are important, but [b]with more than half of the students at the elementary school from out-of-bounds[/b], which means they come from a different area of the city than the location of the school, it makes it difficult for parents to get involved due to the relatively long distance most of them are from Amidon-Bowen.[/i][/quote]

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