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As DCPS students head back to school today, Murch School students are heading into brand new classrooms at their old location, 36th and Davenport Streets. For many, it won’t be their first glimpse of the fully-modernized school. Students got a chance to drop off school supplies and meet their teachers last Friday. And on Saturday, […]
The ribbon-cutting event will begin 30 minutes earlier than previously advertised. Plan to show up at 2:30 p.m. for the ceremony and the festivities. In the two years since the renovation of Murch Elementary began, we’ve heard these two questions quite a bit: 1) Will it be ready in time for the 2018-2019 school year, […]
Parents of preschoolers in-bounds at Murch, Janney and other Ward 3 schools have learned over the years that the District’s “universal pre-K” is anything but universal. There’s often more demand than space in their neighborhood school’s pre-K4 classes. And for the three-year-old set, pre-K3 has been non-existent at Ward 3 public elementary and charter schools. […]
Here’s a question we’ve been getting a lot: Is the Murch School renovation going to be completed in time for the 2018-2019 school year? Murch’s principal has heard it too. And he has an answer: “Yes!” In an update on the renovation, Principal Chris Cebrzynski says he’s been told work on the building at 36th […]
by Marlene Berlin At the first community meeting about the private school moving into the former Intelsat headquarters at 4000 Connecticut Avenue, there were bound to be questions about traffic, given that Whittle School expects to enroll as many as 2,500 students by 2025. The April 9th meeting coordinated and moderated by ANC 3F Commissioner […]
We know many of you have many questions about the private Chinese-language immersion school that will open on the Intelsat campus at 4000 Connecticut Avenue. Perhaps you’ll find some answers at Monday’s community meeting about Whittle School & Studios (details below). After an $185 million renovation, the school’s administrators expect classes to begin in fall […]
Ruth Wattenberg represents Ward 3 on the DC State Board of Education. This is adapted from her March 3rd newsletter. Subscribe here. by Ruth Wattenberg DC education news is moving as quickly as national news. Only two weeks ago our DCPS Chancellor Antwan Wilson resigned and Interim Chancellor Amanda Alexander was named. Just a few […]
The DC Tuition Assistance Grant has been making college more affordable for DC high school graduates for almost 20 years. So when President Trump’s 2019 budget proposed cutting the program, it caused a stir – and some panic. The Wilson Beacon’s student reporters talked to three graduates who are currently attending college out of state. […]
It looks like the new tenants at 4000 Connecticut will be carrying backpacks instead of briefcases. In 2019, five years after Intelsat moved out of its “Space Age crystal palace,” a private Chinese-language immersion school intends to move in. The school will serve students ages 3 to 18. The founder, Chris Whittle, is an education […]
Occasionally, we like to shine the spotlight on Wilson High School’s student newspaper, The Beacon. The students’ reporting hits on topics in the news (such as DACA in the September 2017 issue above) as well as wholly-original discoveries and investigations. The Beacon’s print edition is supplemented by thewilsonbeacon.com. Here, in the past two months, we’ve […]
