Schools vie for Stevens site after Ivymount’s departure from project
https://currentnewspapers.com/schools-vie-for-stevens-site-after-ivymounts-departure-from-project/

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Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

It shows what happens when you're willing to walk away from proving special education. Guess we can always go back to the days of funding children to be in school as far away as Pennsylvania because DCPS can't do anything right.

Yep. Has ANYONE given a coherent reason why they decided to walk away from the Ivymount partnership here?

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Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

It shows what happens when you're willing to walk away from proving special education. Guess we can always go back to the days of funding children to be in school as far away as Pennsylvania because DCPS can't do anything right.

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Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

Two thirds of the wait list is for K and above (584 kids) - including 258 for the middle school years (6-8).

That just means that people IB for other schools are looking for options. They aren't bursting at the seams with IB students.

A WL made up of OOB students is not a reason for a neighborhood school to grow.

If there is demand and space available why not expand? It's not like the city is oversupllied with schools that parents want to send their kids to.

Because there isn't space available. Stevens is and has been surplus for years. It is supposed to be made available to charters first under DC law.

That's not how it works. DCPS and other DC government bodies have priority. Charters have right of first refusal if the property is offered to private sector or other non DC government users.

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Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

Two thirds of the wait list is for K and above (584 kids) - including 258 for the middle school years (6-8).

That just means that people IB for other schools are looking for options. They aren't bursting at the seams with IB students.

A WL made up of OOB students is not a reason for a neighborhood school to grow.

If there is demand and space available why not expand? It's not like the city is oversupllied with schools that parents want to send their kids to.

Because there isn't space available. Stevens is and has been surplus for years. It is supposed to be made available to charters first under DC law.

ANC2A passed a resolution supporting the assignment of the old Stevens school to Walls. Rep. from the mayors office said both DCPS and charter options were being considered.

Anonymous wrote:ANC2B passed a resolution on this last night - requesting that SWW / Francis Stevens get the space now that Ivymont has withdrawn. A commissioner from ANC2A spoke on the issue and mentioned that they were planning to discuss a similar resolution at their meeting next week she mentioned that the city may be planning to hand it over to a charter school.

Just to be clear, Ivymount didn't "withdraw." DCPS said that they no longer wanted to work with Ivymount.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

Two thirds of the wait list is for K and above (584 kids) - including 258 for the middle school years (6-8).

That just means that people IB for other schools are looking for options. They aren't bursting at the seams with IB students.

A WL made up of OOB students is not a reason for a neighborhood school to grow.

If there is demand and space available why not expand? It's not like the city is oversupllied with schools that parents want to send their kids to.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

Two thirds of the wait list is for K and above (584 kids) - including 258 for the middle school years (6-8).

That just means that people IB for other schools are looking for options. They aren't bursting at the seams with IB students.

A WL made up of OOB students is not a reason for a neighborhood school to grow.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

Two thirds of the wait list is for K and above (584 kids) - including 258 for the middle school years (6-8).

Anonymous wrote:Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

It shows what happens when you offer free preschool near downtown.

Rhee / Henderson wanted to shutter both of these schools. Now Francis has a wait list of 900+ and wants to take over the old Stevens space. Shows what can be done with a bit of leadership.

ANC2B passed a resolution on this last night - requesting that SWW / Francis Stevens get the space now that Ivymont has withdrawn. A commissioner from ANC2A spoke on the issue and mentioned that they were planning to discuss a similar resolution at their meeting next week she mentioned that the city may be planning to hand it over to a charter school.

There was a decision in 2014 to allocate the building to a special needs education provider (Ivymount) with financing to be provided by a developer (Akridge) who would get some of the land in return.
https://dmped.dc.gov/page/stevens-school

Now it seems Ivymount is out. As of May 2017 the Mayor's office had announced that the development would go forward and that it would identify new educational programming options for the Stevens school ...
https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/05/23/akridge-will-push-forward-on-stevens-school.html?ana=e_wash_brk&s=newsletter&ed=2017-05-23&u=iwiEv47oBIqiyqQDXcPElcFKjr4&t=1495560904&j=78238341#g1

Anyone know what this is about?
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http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/554760_be9fd2ae22914f338e4a51c1d8d4070e.pdf