Sure would be a great project for one of our empty nearby schools: District lofts project to combine housing and artists` space From The WashPost A one-story warehouse in Northeast Washington where artists have come for more than 20 years to hone their craft is being transformed into an arts campus where they will not … More WP on an Artspace coming to NE
Here’s an interesting tidbit from ten years ago, referring to the CAPCS facility on 14th St and the use (or misuse) of DC government bonds to open a school, only to have it leased out for other uses… “Just last December [1999], the community thought it would be welcoming the Community Academy Public Charter School to … More Leasing out CAPCS– history repeating itself?
via Neighborhood Watch: Rental of New School Theater in Bates Causes a Stir – City Desk – Washington City Paper. Posted by Tiffany E. Browne on Feb. 15, 2010, at 12:16 pm The Issue: The opening of the Eckstine and Ellington Theatre within the Dorothy Height Community Academy Public Charter School (CAPCS) caused a stir … More City Paper: Rental of School Theater Causes Stir
We protested this loudly beginning in June (see prior posts here, here, here, here, here, here. and here). I hadn’t heard anything in a while, so I posed the question to the ANC Rep from 5c02, Sylvia Pinkney, as this is where the school sits. Here’s her response: At my request, ANC 5C forwarded … More What about the JF Cooke School?
On Sunday, I posted an article on YouthBuild, which reported on the second YouthBuild campus coming in 2011 to the JF Cook School. YouthBuild drafts opportunities for dropouts (Washington Post, 12/27/2009) The article mentions that “several of the YouthBuild students have criminal records.” I was anticipating SOME feedback from DC BACA blog readers. I wasn’t anticipating … More No community feedback on “several YouthBuild students have criminal records” …?
Today’s Washington Post includes an article on YouthBuild. The article mentions YouthBuild’s second campus coming in 2011 to the JF Cook School. Executive Director Arthur Dade is quoted. Note that the article mentions that several of the YouthBuild students have criminal records. I have copied a few paragraphs of this Post article here. YouthBuild drafts … More YouthBuild profiled in 12/27/2009 Washington Post article
We are defined by the community we live in and I am proud to announce that as a community we came together as one in opposition to the Latin American Youth Center’s (Youth Build) use of and residential addition to the JF Cook Elementary School. While we all live in our respective communities, issues affecting … More JF Cook Elementary School Update
See this letter-to-the-editor in the Thursday, October 29, 2009, Examiner from Volita Russell, Math and Science GED Instructor at YouthBuild Public Charter School. See her profile here: http://www.ybpcs.org/aboutus.html . Ms. Russell may very well be referring to the lively Monday, 10/05/2009, Bates Area Civic Associaton (BACA) meeting — at which the BACA members voted to oppose LAYC/YB coming … More YouthBuild instructor responds to community concerns about LAYC/YB at JF Cook School
Former Dunbar High School principal Harriet Kargbo is listed as one of the plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Fired DC principals go to court again District teachers are not the only ex-school employees turning to the courts for redress. Last week a group of principals and assistant principals dismissed by Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee in 2008 … More Dunbar principal, one of many plaintiffs in lawsuit
Via: Jay Mathews: Major changes at 2 troubled D.C. high schools – washingtonpost.com. Dunbar and Coolidge community members came to New York to recruit them and won a fight with Anacostia High supporters for their services. At their insistence, Rhee installed classroom walls at Dunbar, whose open-space design was considered insane by everyone. Both schools … More WP: Big changes at Dunbar High
Bates Area Civic Association 