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Dear Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization members, CHPSPO will meet on Tuesday, August 15, at 6:30 pm at the Northeast Library (330 7th Street, NE) in the conference room on the lower level. We will be joined by Claudia Lujan from DCPS who will be discussing a strategic regional analysis being done by DCPS.Continue reading “CHPSPO Meets Tuesday August 15 at NE Library”

CHPSPO Meeting Notes – July 19, 2017 Jefferson Academy  801 7th Street, SW 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.   Feed-the Feeder – Bruce DarConte, President Near Southeast Community Partners Goal of Feed-the-Feeder effort for Jefferson Academy has been to raise teacher morale, and help teachers get to know each other. Two Feed-the-Feeder events have beenContinue reading “CHPSPO Meeting Notes – July 19, 2017”

Dear Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization Members, CHPSPO will meet on Wednesday, July 19, at 6:30 pm at Jefferson Academy (801 7th St., SW). At our meeting, Bruce DarConte with the Near Southeast Community Partners will be discussing the activities they’ve undertaken for their Feed the Feeder effort, and Brian Doyle with the WardContinue reading “CHPSPO Meets Wednesday, July 19 at Jefferson Academy”

Dear Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization members, Please share with your school communities information about the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Advisory Task Force the DC State Board of Education is forming. This is an important Task Force that will help create a citywide school report card, and look at the possibility of includingContinue reading “SBOE Announces #ESSA Task Force Application”

The Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization will meet on Tuesday, June 20, at 6:30 pm at Payne Elementary (1445 C Street, SE). We will be joined by Joe Weedon, the Ward 6 State Board of Education (SBOE) representative, who will be discussing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Advisory Task Force that is beingContinue reading “CHPSPO Meets Tuesday, June 20, at Payne – (come early for interview with Japanese newspaper)”

CHPSPO will meet on Tuesday, May 16, at 6:30 pm at Maury Elementary. We will be joined by Claudia Lujan who will be discussing the DCPS Reign: Empowering Young Women as Leaders Initiative. We will also discuss the ESSA Advisory Task Force the State Board of Education is forming, and discuss holding elections to fillContinue reading “CHPSPO Meeting Tuesday, May 16, at Maury”

I’m Sarah Livingston, one of DC’s voting, taxpaying citizens from Ward 6. This past Saturday, I saw a film called “A Backpack Full of Cash” that documents some of the ways that public education in our country is being privatized including by charter schools. It does a great job of showing, in Philadelphia for example,Continue reading “Testimony of Sarah Livingston – Committee on Education Public Charter School Board Budget Hearing – May 4, 2017”

  I am Valerie Jablow, a DCPS parent. I am testifying about the poor public engagement, civic planning, and fiscal responsibility of the charter board. Here, I will outline these problems—with specific solutions in footnote 5 of my testimony you have been handed. –Applicants for charter schools are required to demonstrate a need that onlyContinue reading “Valerie Jablow Testimony – Education Committee Hearing on Public Charter School Board Budget – May 4, 2017”

Thank you for the opportunity to testify today.  My name is Suzanne Wells, and I have a daughter who is a 6th grader at Eliot-Hine Middle School. Last week at the DCPS budget hearing, as Councilmember Grosso well knows, there were nearly 180 people who signed up to testify.  Having just six people testify todayContinue reading “Testimony of Suzanne Wells – Committee on Education Public Charter School Board Budget Hearing – May 4, 2017”