For those of you who have let the Biological Imperative overtake your brain, here are some important dates and links. Everyone else, here is a video of a little octopus climbing over a rock. You’re welcome. 1. DCPS Preschool/Pre-K and Out-Of Boundary Lottery If you have school-age children who will be attending public school in [...]
It’s that time of year, parents of pre-schoolers: open house time. This is your chance to tour your neighborhood school and apply to DCPS’s Out-of-Boundary/Pre-S & Pre-K Lottery (which runs from January 28-February 25). One of the best ways to get to know a school is by visiting an Open House: that way, you get [...]
If you missed them at the MOTH School Information Night and you were not able to make today’s Open House at Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan School, 215 G Street NE, do not fret, prospective Logan parent! There are still TWO more chances of checking out the school. The dates are as follows: Wednesday, January [...]
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For the second time this school year, students and teachers at Brent Elementary at 3rd and North Carolina SE returned to school after a weekend away to find broken windows and missing computers. Early Sunday morning, at around roughly 1 am, several individuals used a shovel to pry open the Principal’s window and then a [...]
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Unless you are currently living under a rock and shunning all social media (which probably also means you’re not reading this so never mind about that), you may know that Hurricane Sandy is on its way over here, and about to collide with a Nor’easter. The storm is still a Category 1 hurricane and it’s [...]
It’s never too early to start thinking about the kids’ school (should you find yourself in the precarious position of attempting to raise children within the “hostile” confines of a city). To help you out with that purpose, School-Within-School at Logan Annex (SWS) is hosting a Community Open House TOMORROW, Saturday October 20, from 10 [...]
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On Saturday, August 25th, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., volunteers throughout the city will descend on various DC Public Schools sites to participate in DCPS’s annual Beautification Day. DCPS hopes to have over 3,500 volunteers scattered throughout every neighborhood in the city, working to make sure that every school in DC is ready for [...]
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Guest post by Joe Weedon Over the weekend, DCPS Interim Chancellor Kaya Henderson and several members of her senior leadership team joined Councilman Tommy Wells at Eastern High School to present and discuss the state of Ward 6 schools. As Hill residents know, our public schools, at all levels, have undergone a dramatic transition over [...]
So, as I’m walking my kid and her friends to school the other morning, the conversation turns, as it’s wont to do with today’s six year-old set, to the impending testing regime, or the DC Comprehensive Assessment System, known popularly to them as DC-CAS. As the thread had segued from a previous discussion of Super [...]
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