Posts tagged Education
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DCPS cancels promised arts magnet middle school
District parents are without clear plans for middle school expansions after DCPS officials canceled the planning process for a new arts magnet middle school. DCPS officials confirmed the suspension with Greater Greater Washington last week and said the need for a city-wide comprehensive middle school plan required “rethinking all our options.” DCPS officials… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome and unwelcome guests
Developer wants bus stop gone; Wells wants DC United to stay; What to do with Union Station? Tour buses?; DC United not considering Prince George’s; Inflation applies to Dulles tolls; Protest updates; Cyclists’ Ed. comes to elementary school; Test scores and the achieve gap rise; And…. Keep reading…
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Land donors sue JHU to block Science City development
The family that donated land in Montgomery County to the Johns Hopkins University for a research campus is now suing to stop development of part of the sprawling “Science City.” Science City is Montgomery County’s plan for 60,000 jobs in a sprawling suburban development five miles from the Shady Grove Metro stop. It’s far from most of the county’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: That will cost you more
Taxi rate increase uncertain; Is a Metro fare hike on the way?; Child poverty rates climb regionally; WMATA tries to lure federal tenants; Metro suicides failing lately; Thanksgiving enforcement jumps; Montgomery challenges ballot question; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Challenges
MoCo big box bill unconstitutional?; “Science City” really just JHU profit city?; Safeway could block Skyland Walmart; Georgetown ok with Glover Park streetscape; Can RFK parking lots become ball fields?; Preservationists should be “picky”; Congress wants bike-ped shrunk in TIGER. Keep reading…
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Some special needs kids still falling through DCPS cracks
DC Public Schools recently opened a second facility to serve DC parents who are concerned that their preschool-age child may have a disability or a developmental delay. However, as a judge’s ruling made clear last week, ineffective managers of these facilities are allowing children with special needs to fall through the cracks. This is not only tragic for these children, but… Keep reading…
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Urbanism is good for everyone, especially kids
We assume that kids belong in the suburbs, where they’ve got yards to play in and great schools to learn in. But good, urban neighborhoods can produce good kids as well. Twenty years ago, sociologist Ray Oldenburg wrote in The Great, Good Place that teenagers are a litmus test for a neighborhood’s “vitality”: The adolescent houseguest, I would… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: CaBi to the Mall and the store
The Mall may get 5 CaBi stations; Walmart may add stations too; But is it enforceable?; Montgomery curfew dead for now; Franklin Shelter? Not so fast; Food stamps up, not down; Arlington eyes office building; Ehrlich blames everyone else; And…. Keep reading…
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Brunch links: Downtown building angst
Franklin occupied; Add 2 floors to MLK Library?; Evans the paradox; Bill pays WMATA, changes MWAA; How WMATA got religion on open data; TEDxPhilly learns problem with car dependence; Fixing vacant lots is healthy; What avenue are you?; And…. Keep reading…
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Town-gown planning can be more constructive
The DC Zoning Commission will hold its final hearing tonight on the Georgetown University campus plan. Some neighborhood groups and ANC 2E continue to strongly oppose the plan, despite a number of concessions on the part of the university. Does DC’s campus planning process actually help solve problems or just create strife? The process does not encourage effective dialogue… Keep reading…