In a city that has a reputation for failing schools, Watkins Elementary, just a hop and a skip from my house, shone brightly in the national spotlight. Well, at least for us nerds who get our news from the Newshour on PBS. For a number of years, the fourth grade class has taken the stage […]
It turns out that when you only have one liquor license request to deal with on the ANC agenda, you can actually get through the meeting in under two hours! This was the first meeting for newly sworn-in commissioners, Ivan Frishberg, Brian Pate, Brian Flahaven and Jared Critchfield. Neil Glick has replaced David Garrison as […]
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 […]