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CHPSPO Meeting Tonight, August 13 at Riverby Books
The Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization meeting will be Tuesday, August 13, at 6:30 p.m. We’ll meet at 419 East Capitol St., SE (next door to Riverby Books). Attached is the agenda.
David Street, the new Community Outreach Coordinator for the Washington Teachers’ Union, will meet with us. A representative from the Artful Resistance campaign has been invited. We’ll also be dividing up planning responsibilities for Walk to School Day.
Hope to see you on Tuesday.
Suzanne Wells
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 9:52 PM
Subject: CHPSPO Meeting August 13The Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization (CHPSPO) will meet on August 13 (2nd Tuesday this month). Attached is the agenda for our meeting. I’ll send around another note letting everyone know the meeting location.
Suzanne Wells
081313 CHPSPO Agenda.docx
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Councilmember Catania Community Conversations
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dear Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization members,Please post the following information on your school list serves:
Councilmember Catania has scheduled a series of Community Conversations in each Ward to discuss the future of public education in DC. Councilmember Catania chairs the Committee on Education. The Ward 6 Community Conversation is scheduled for Wednesday, July 31 at the Southwest Library (900 Wesley Place, SW) from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. You can register for the Community Conversation at http://www.davidcatania.com/summer.
Nine bills have been introduced before the Council that cover a wide range of issues including providing chartering authority to the Chancellor of DCPS, establishing a unified lottery and common application for DCPS and the public charter schools, establishment of an Office of the Student Advocate, amendments to the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula, and establishment of a process for the disposition of surplus DCPS properties that gives a right of first offer to public charter schools. The nine bills are:
- Fair Student Funding and School-Based Budget Act of 2013
- Individual School Accountability Act of 2013
- Focused Student Achievement Act of 2013
- Unified Public Lottery Act of 2013
- Comprehensive Planning and Utilization of School Facilities Act of 2013
- Parent and Student Empowerment Act of 2013
- Public Education Governance Improvement Act of 2013
- Increasing Access to High Quality Educational Opportunities Act of 2013
- Reading Development and Grade 3 Retention Act of 2013
These are important changes being considered for our public schools. The Community Conversation is an opportunity to make your voice heard on the future of public education in our city. Please try to attend the Ward 6 Community Converation on July 31.
Suzanne Wells
CHPSPO Meeting, Tuesday, July 23 at Logan (215 G St., NE)
The July CHPSPO meeting will be held on July 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Capitol Hill Montessori @ Logan (Room 107). Attached is the draft CHPSPO agenda for July 23. If you have other agenda topics, please let me know.
We will have a discussion at our meeting about the Campaign for Artful Resistance. Here is a link for more information http://saveourschoolsmarch.org/get-involved/the-campaign-for-artful-resistance/.
Councilmember Catania has scheduled a series of Community Conversations focused on education. The Ward 6 Community Conversation is scheduled for Wednesday, July 31 at the Southwest Library. You can register for the Community Conversation at http://www.davidcatania.com/summer.
Finally, attached is the DRAFT list of the PTA presidents and CHPSPO representatives for SY2013/2014. Please send me any and all corrections.
Suzanne Wells
072313 CHPSPO Agenda.docx
CHPSPO School Year 2013 20143 Representatives.docx
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CHPSPO Meeting Moved to Tuesday, July 23
The July CHPSPO meeting will be held on July 23 at 6:30 p.m. We are moving the meeting to July 23 because the Miner community has a meeting with Chancellor Henderson on July 16 to discuss the firing of Ms. Bunch (July 16 is our regularly scheduled CHPSPO meeting). CHPSPO has been asked to present testimonial at the meeting with the Chancellor.
Atttached are several testimonies that were given at last week’s hearings on the education bills that have been introduced. Attached are testimonies from Cathy Reilly (SHAPPE), Caryn Ernst (Capitol Hill Cluster School), Liz Davis (President-elect of the Washington Teachers Union), and me on the Individual School Accountability Act, and the Mayor’s education bill. Also, attached is testimony by Cathy Reilly on the funding bill.
Please note that Councilmember Catania has scheduled a series of Community Conversations focused on education. The Ward 6 Community Conversation is scheduled for July 31 at the Southwest Library. You can register for the Community Conversation at http://www.davidcatania.com/summer.
Finally, attached is the draft CHPSPO agenda for July 23. If you have other agenda topics, please let me know.
Suzanne Wells
2013-7-9 SHAPPE Testimony.docx
2013-7-9 Liz Davis testimony spoken version.docx
Testimony on School Accountability Act of 2013 – Ernst.doc
DC Council Hearing on Chartering Authority 070713.docx
072313 CHPSPO Agenda.docx
2013-7-11 Council testimony SHAPPE Funding bill.docx
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tuesday, June 18, CHPSPO meeting at Watkins
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061813 CHPSPO Agenda.docx
SH Community Flyer.pdf
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )DDOT moveDC Workshop @ Union Station on June 11 – Participate!
We’ve Made it Easier to Participate in moveDC.
DDOT is committed to offering the public the opportunity to provide input on the moveDC multimodal, long range transportation plan. Several convenient, alternative input events are scheduled during the upcoming week to provide additional opportunities for you to participate. During similar other workshops already scheduled, DDOT will present potential approaches to meeting the District’s future transportation needs. Participants will be asked to share their thoughts on each approach, suggest projects that should be included in each, help identify priorities, and discuss trade-offs they would be willing to support.
Stop by a “Workshop on the Run” – Tuesday, June 11, 2013 – Union Station
The study team will be available all day in the West Carriage Port (near the Metro escalators) to share information and to discuss your thoughts on transportation improvements for the District. Come for a few minutes or stay as long as you like.
Details:
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Union Station – West Carriage Port (near Metrorail escalators)
2 West/40 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20002
Google map
Join Us for Online Workshops
The study team will offer a presentation and entertain your questions during these 1 hour-long web-based workshops. Registration is open now.
Evening Workshop – Wednesday, June 12, 2013
7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
June 12 Web Meeting – Click here to register now!
Lunchtime Workshop – Thursday, June 13, 2013
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
June 13 Web Meeting – Click here to register now!
All Upcoming Workshops– At a Glance:
WHEN WHERE Saturday, June 8, 2013 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Presentation: 10:30 a.m. Anacostia Library 1800 Good Hope Road, S.E.Washington, DC 20020Google map Tuesday , June 11, 2013 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. No formal presentation – visit our kiosk anytime to view presentation materials and talk with the team. Union Station West Carriage Port (near Metrorail escalators) 2 West/40 Massachusetts Ave., NE Washington, DC 20002 Google map Thursday, June 13, 20136:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Presentation: 7:00 p.m. Georgetown Library 3260 R St. N.W. Washington, DC 20007Google map Wednesday, June 12, 20137:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Web Meetings – Sign up now online: June 12 Web Meeting – Click here to register now! Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Web Meetings – Sign up now online: June 13 Web Meeting – Click here to register now!
Getting to the Workshops.
Be sure to check out www.goDCgo.com to learn about transportation options for getting to the workshops.
Can’t Make a Workshop?
Information and activities will be posted online where you can participate and comment.
Do you need assistance to participate?
For those who need special accommodations or language assistance services (translation or interpretation), please contact Jordyne Blaise, Office of Civil Rights, 202-671-5117 or Jordyne.Blaise 72 hours in advance of a meeting. These services will be provided free of charge.
Stay Connected Online
Website: www.wemoveDC.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wemovedc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wemovedc
Sincerely,
moveDC Team
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )OSSE Invitation to State Report Card Community Meeting and/or Survey
http://srvy.it/10pUgRx. The deadline for responses to the survey has now been extended until 5pm on Friday, June 7, 2013.
And/Or
2. By joining us on Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 6:00-7:00 pm for a community discussion exploring what information to include in the report card and how to make sure it is accessible and easy to use. The community meeting will be held in the 3rd floor conference room of OSSE’s headquarters, located at 810 First St., NE in Washington, DC. To RSVP for this event, please contact Maisha Hayes at maisha.hayes.
By participating in one or both of these efforts, you will give us insight into what the most important factors are to you when choosing a school for your student and how we can make that information available to you in the most convenient and usable way.
If you have any questions regarding this initiative, please contact Kilin Boardman-Schroyer at kilin.boardman-schroyer.
Thanks for your interest and cooperation, and we look forward to receiving your feedback.
Sincerely,
The Office of the State Superintendent of Education
CHPSPO Meeting Tuesday, May 21 at Tyler
The Capitol Hill Public School Parent Organization will meet on Tuesday, May 21, at Tyler Elementary (1001 G Street, SE, Art Room, 1st Floor) at 6:30 p.m. Matthew Frumin who recently ran for an at-large city council seat will attend our meeting to discuss efforts to form a city-wide parent organization that will work to support matter-of-right neighborhood schools. We’ll also get an update on the school library efforts, and we’ll discuss what we want to do to support the top 2013 CHPSPO priority to work jointly to support our neighborhood middle schools.
Congratulations to Sandra Moscoso-Mills for a terrific Bike-to-School Day on May 8. Of the 17 schools in DC that registered for Bike-to-School Day, 11 of them were on Capitol Hill!
If your school has held its PTA elections for the 2013/2014 school year, please let me know who was elected to be your PTA president. Many thanks to all the outgoing PTA presidents for all your hard work!
Suzanne Wells
052113 CHPSPO Agenda.docx
CHPSPO Priorities-SurveyMonkey-Results 031713.xlsx
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Update on Librarians – Still need your support. By Peter MacPherson
Dear Friends:
For the past 14 months we’ve been involved in a long and difficult battle with DCPS over school libraries and librarians. Thanks to your efforts we’ve made real progress in getting librarians back in the schools. Unfortunately we have to fight about a longer. The chancellor has said there will be a librarian in every school this fall. That promise, however, comes with a significant caveat. Schools with under 400 enrollment will only receive a part-time librarian, which is 61.4 percent of DCPS campuses. There is no money currently in the FY14 DCPS budget to buy books and other materials for the libraries. There is no plan in place to deal with the fact that Anacostia High School has no library book. That H.D. Woodson has only 400. That Dunbar and the new middle school at McKinley Tech will open with no new books. What the chancellor has offered relative to a spectacular degree of advocacy is pretty paltry.
Almost every school community is in a fight with DCPS over some aspect of the budget. But the library issue effects us all, either in staffing terms, the absence of resources or both. This effort desperately needs you to raise your voice yet again and tell our city’s elected leadership how critical you view school libraries to be.
Best,
Peter MacPherson
—Every school, regardless of size, should have a full-time librarian.
—Funds need to be allocated so that schools get a yearly per-pupil allotment to buy books and other library materials. We recommend $25.
—All school libraries that are going through modernization must have an opening day library collection purchase for them. The size should be 20 volumes per student enrolled. That needs to begin immediately.
—All remaining high schools and middle schools should have their collections brought to that size as well.
—All schools, regardless of size should receive 30 magazine subscriptions.
—DCPS should buy 1,400 e-readers and assemble a 40,000 volume e-book collection.
—DCPS students should have access to at least 10 databases for research.
—And all schools should have at least 10 computers bought and available for student use in the library.
—All these things should be in place by the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CHPSPO meeting on April 16, 6:30-8PM, Riverby Books
| The Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization will meet on Tuesday, April 16 at Riverby Books, 419 East Capitol St., SE. Attached is the agenda for the meeting.One of the things we will discuss on Tuesday is the testimony CHPSPO is scheduled to deliver at the DC Council hearing pn April 17 on the DCPS SY14 budget.Suzanne Wells |
041613 CHPSPO Agenda.docx
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