Posts tagged Spingarn High School
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Morning bell: 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, taking stock
Where to now for DC?: Although DC’s schools remain largely segregated, Colbert King says DC is right to focus on allocating resources to low-performing schools. But Sam Chaltain urges using school choice as a way to create more diversity. (Post; Of, By, For/Ed Week) Brown’s questionable legacy: De facto racial segregation has increased in schools in the Northeastern… Keep reading…
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Morning bell: One high school will get an international focus, another may stay closed for a while
Roosevelt HS will reopen with international focus: The troubled Petworth school, currently being modernized, may offer dual language instruction and international travel when it reopens in 2015. (Post) Shifting school renovation money: DC Councilmember and mayoral candidate David Catania wants to delay reopening Spingarn High School as a career and technical education… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit inches forward
Still waiting; Super stops get cheaper, better; NYC looks up to DC; Speed camera slowdown; Even more tourists; Not a level playing field; Advertising is good for air; Out with the old; And…. Keep reading…
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City Year aims to cut dropout rate
City Year, a program that deploys young adults to work in high-poverty DCPS schools, helps keep attendance up and boosts learning. But it’s not clear yet that it’s achieving its goal of preventing dropouts. A national organization that has been around for 25 years, City Year’s overall aim is to reduce the number of students who drop out of high school, a figure… Keep reading…
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Gray budget funds school modernizations and more
All middle and high schools that still need modernizing will get done in the next 6 years, under the budget Mayor Gray is releasing today, and some of the most out-of-date elementary school buildings. The capital plan has $465 million to modernize high schools, starting with $162 million in Fiscal Year 2014. The money will finish modernizations for the remaining high schools:… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shine a light
A brighter day dawns; No Bike DC this year; ANC cool to moratorium; Subway subway fantasy map; Congressman v. architects; Long Bridge getting pool; Bike share everywhere; Costly delays; And…. Keep reading…
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Streetcar car barn design improves in latest round
The DC Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) will discuss a new set of designs for the Benning Road streetcar maintenance facility this Thursday. The US Commission on Fine Arts (CFA) already got a look last week. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go the distance
Silver Line to Largo requires extra silver; Spingarn gets historic; No rentals at St. E’s?; Council committee giveth; Council committee taketh away; What changed after Rhee?; Can Amtrak ever satisfy Congress?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A step back
Court voids DC’s taxi smart meter contract; Maryland to run out of transportation money?; Virginia grounds its speed-enforcing planes; Structured vs. informal on sports fields; Democrats will fill Phil’s old spot; Washington Post’s editor to step down; Where do Uber riders go?; Cities beat GOP; And…. Keep reading…
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Spingarn car barn design sounds good, but isn’t public
DDOT has apparently been hard at work designing an attractive streetcar maintenance facility at the corner of Benning Road and 26th Street, NE. They’ve worked extensively with historic preservation officials on what sounds like a good design, but still have yet to release it publicly. Today, DDOT presented the concept design to the Historic Preservation Review Board… Keep reading…