By guest author Joe Weedon Elementary schools across Capitol Hill are booming. Enrollment is up, test scores are improving. Our neighborhood’s success in supporting our neighborhood elementary schools has even entered into the Mayoral debate. Councilmember Wells regularly states that, “every elementary school in Ward 6 has a waiting list” and that “I know we […]
Last week, I wrote about the first free school opened to freed slaves in the District of Columbia, and Hamilton Wilcox Pierson, who ran it. Today, we will look at another man whose life rivals Pierson’s in breadth, and the school he opened.
As a DCPS parent, I am always intrigued by the history of the schools in DC, and Capitol Hill particularly. The fight for free, universal, and quality education is one that goes back almost to the founding of the city. Today, we will look at one of the shorter-lived schools on the Hill – but […]
In a high density area with little public space greenery, the Wylie Street Community Garden is a small, urban oasis. Located just north of H Street at 13th, NE, and diagonal to the R.L. Christian Library site, the garden sits on an undeveloped end lot owned by the H Street Community Development Corporation (HSCDC) but […]
You have may have read our posts on some of the Ward Six candidates– Democrats Charles Allen and Darrel Thompson, and independent Shelonda Tillman. Tonight you get a chance to hear from Allen and Thompson in person, as well as Libertarian candidate Pranav Badhwar, whose interview for THIH is upcoming, as they participate in a […]