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jonetta rose barras: Was the DC Council really talking about education?

jonetta rose barras Jun 6, 2019

“This is all about politics,” DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore and Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie said repeatedly last week. He and his colleagues were engaged in a nearly two-hour debate about whether to relocate Benjamin Banneker…

Opinion

Kyndell Geddis and Crystal Smith: Why Banneker should relocate

Commentary May 28, 2019

Since 1981, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School has provided DC students with a great education. Banneker’s campus at Euclid Street and Georgia Avenue NW was originally built to serve as a junior high, but over the years it has been…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Mayor Bowser, the gentrification bogeyman and Shaw Middle School

jonetta rose barras May 23, 2019

For multiple decades, DC families — regardless of how long they’ve been in the city, their race or their ethnicity — have shared a common dream: a public education system that allows their children to attend top-quality institutions in…

Colbert King in The Post: Trump’s governing style seems to have brushed off on D.C.’s mayor

Editor May 17, 2019

President Trump’s governing style seems to have brushed off on D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser. If so, she’s not having much luck with it.

Washington Informer: Banneker Relocation, Modernization in Question

Editor May 17, 2019

Students, Teachers Fight to Rally Council Support

DCist: The Battle Over Banneker High School And The Shaw Middle School, Explained

Editor May 16, 2019

The D.C. Council devoted a significant portion of its daylong budget discussion on Tuesday to one plot of land: The long-closed Shaw Junior High School at 9th St. and Rhode Island Avenue NW.

City Paper: Councilmember David Grosso Loses School Renovation Debate That Divides Council

Editor May 16, 2019

Councilmembers lament that the mayor framed the issue around gentrification.

Washington Post: D.C. Council rejects mayor’s proposal to move Banneker High

Editor May 14, 2019

The D.C. Council narrowly rejected Tuesday a proposal from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to build a new campus for an elite high school on vacant property in the booming Shaw neighborhood.

City Paper: Council Set to Vote Down Mayor in Battle Over Shaw Junior High Site

Editor May 14, 2019

Shaw residents want a new middle school, but Banneker High needs a new facility. It has become the latest fight over race and gentrification.

Washington Post: Bowser ties fate of empty school building to D.C.’s gentrification fight

Editor May 13, 2019

The mayor has made her beliefs clear: The fate of a vacant school building on prime real estate in Northwest Washington represents the latest gentrification fight in a city full of them.

Opinion

Shaw Middle School advocates: Two communities, two buildings and one red herring

Commentary May 13, 2019

Nearly seven months ago, two DC public school communities ended up pitted against each other with Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision to move Benjamin Banneker Academic High School from its historic Euclid Street NW building to the former Shaw…

Opinion

John Settles Jr., Natalie Hopkinson and Lee Granados: Build Banneker in Shaw as a living monument to…

Commentary May 13, 2019

As DC residents and parents of students at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, we are urging DC Council members to vote Tuesday to fund Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to build a new, expanded campus for Banneker at the site of the…

News

#SaveShawMS gains traction as community movement

Emma Whitford Jan 30, 2019

Community support is gathering behind Save Shaw Middle School, a group advocating for DC to fulfill its previous commitments to create a new neighborhood middle school at 925 Rhode Island Ave. NW. The group’s Change.org petition…

WUSA9: Shaw neighborhood continues push for local standalone middle school

Editor Nov 28, 2018

WASHINGTON -- A D.C. high school with an historic past will soon get a new building in the heart of the city, but not without some controversy.

Washington Informer: Banneker Students, Alumni Defend Shaw Relocation

Editor Nov 24, 2018

Within the confines of a nearly century-old building perched on a hill along Georgia Avenue in Northwest, the staff at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School have prepared legions of young people from the across the District for the…

News

Community rallies against use of Shaw site for new Banneker High School

Catherine Douglas Moran Nov 7, 2018

Nearly 50 people rallied Saturday against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to move the Benjamin Banneker Academic High School to the site of the former Shaw Junior High School, instead of the neighborhood middle school they say the city promised…

Mayor Bowser Announces Benjamin Banneker Academic High School to Relocate to the Former Shaw Junior…

Press Release Oct 26, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 26, 2018 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Jack Pfeiffer (DME) Mayor Bowser Announces Benjamin Banneker Academic High School to Relocate to the Former Shaw Junior High School, Increasing Capacity by 300…

News

City announces plan to use vacant Shaw site for Banneker expansion

Catherine Douglas Moran Oct 26, 2018

Mayor Muriel Bowser and her top education officials announced plans today to modernize Banneker Academic High School by relocating it to a new location a few blocks south: the former Shaw Junior High School site. The news is likely to…

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The DC Council has announced a slate of oversight hearings for the fall, including sessions to highlight "standout" schools, examine overcrowding at DC's youth detention center, and scrutinize the…

jonetta rose barras: The housing crisis solution DC officials continue to ignore

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You’ve heard the adage hundreds of times: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. Many DC elected officials and government functionaries…

District Links: DC accelerates planned shutdown of sole streetcar route; Events DC, auditor’s office at odds over…

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A new report from the Office of the DC Auditor contends that Events DC owes $68.7 million to the District government's general fund, but the quasi-public authority challenges the auditor's…

District Links: Emergency bill to extend expanded youth curfew stalls; myriad states weigh in on DC suit against…

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Emergency legislation to extend the expanded youth curfew through December failed to pass in the DC Council yesterday, falling short of the necessary supermajority to win approval.

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