As I read the post on NYE festivities on the Hill, I spaced out and imagined what sparkly shirt I would wear and what great bars I would hit to ring in 2011. And than reality slapped me in the face as a child’s shriek echoed within the walls of my home. As a mother […]
Well, we’re just about through with the Christmas/Festivus shopping at the Krepp household, and between a myriad of young cousins (welcome to baby Noah, btw), Toys for Tots, and giving Santa a helping hand, we’ve been happy to report that not only is it possible to do all of your kid’s shopping on the Hill, […]
Options Public Charter School, the city’s oldest charter school, serves at-risk students from its campus at 14th & E Streets, NE. Currently 70% of Options students have some sort of special need, according to the school’s Executive Director, Dr. Donna Montgomery. At the start of this school year, 30 students with the diagnosis of conduct […]
At last month’s ANC 6A meeting, commissioners voted convincingly to appeal AppleTree’s permit to build a school at 138 12th Street, NE on the grounds that the permit was issued in error. AppleTree’s initial permit was issued in 2007, giving the school two years to begin construction. Nothing has happened on the site so when […]
Last night a group of residents of the Capitol Riverfront community met with Interim Chancellor Kaya Henderson regarding the future of Van Ness Elementary. Van Ness, confusingly, is located on 5th Street SE, adjacent to M Street SE and not in the Northwest neighborhood of the same name. The school was closed by DCPS in […]