Boundary & feeder discussion Wed.
This is a reminder that the Ward 2 Education Council's September meeting is this Wednesday, September 20 at 7:00 pm.
Register for the meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We are going to be discussing the ongoing school boundary and student assignment study with David Alpert, the Ward 2 member of the advisory committee (and W2EC Corresponding Secretary). Also see info on town halls for the study next week at the bottom of this email.
The advisory committee is working to recommend 3 "scenarios" to the study team for how to configure school feeder patterns, lottery preferences, and more. The committee would like your input on what kinds of changes your school community might like to see that would strengthen your school, increase enrollment in neighborhood schools, and address overcrowding.
Town halls coming up
Over the next few weeks, the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME) team are holding town halls for the boundary study and the parallel Master Facilities Plan to review school building capacities and needs. The Boundary and Student Assignment Study town halls are next week:
Tuesday, September 26 at 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Click here to register for this virtual town hall.
Wednesday, September 27 at 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Click here to register for this virtual town hall.
Participants will review the landscape of DCPS boundaries and student assignment analysis, provide feedback on potential policy tools, and receive an introduction to the online web tool. Both town hall sessions will cover the same information.
During the first week of October, they will host a series of virtual town hall meetings to get input from members of the community on the Master Facilities Plan project:
Wednesday, October 4 at 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Click here to register for this virtual town hall.
Thursday, October 5 at 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Click here to register for this virtual town hall.
Participants will review updated programmatic capacities and draft recommendations supporting the three goals of the MFP; ensuring school facilities are efficiently utilized, ensuring every student is enrolled in a modern state of the art facility and, ensuring every student's daily experience is in a well-maintained facility. Both town hall sessions will cover the same information.