Posts tagged Wilson High School
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How to assign DC students to schools? We now have a menu of possibilities
The committee working on changes in DC’s school assignment policy has floated some proposals. They’re not as radical as some feared—or perhaps hoped—but there’s still plenty of fodder for debate. The DC Advisory Committee on Student Assignment has been working for 6 months on the knotty issue of DC’s school boundaries and feeder patterns,… Keep reading…
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826DC uses volunteers to get students to write
The tutoring program 826DC has hundreds of volunteers working with 3,000 DC students on writing every year. It’s fun and quirky, and kids seem to love it. But can the program really teach them how to write? 826 National, the parent organization for 8 branches scattered across the country, has been getting a lot of attention lately. The program, founded by writer Dave Eggers,… Keep reading…
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DC begins to redraw school boundaries
The long-awaited, or perhaps long-dreaded, DCPS boundary-drawing process has begun. While it’s bound to be painful for some, it’s also long overdue. Yesterday a 20-member task force finally kicked off the review of DC school feeder patterns and boundaries that was originally supposed to have been finished by June 2013. The task force, led by the office of the Deputy… Keep reading…