School Modernization

Some education advocates have started describing Mayor Muriel Bowser and sections of her administration as “Trumpian.” They have joked, for example, that Paul Kihn, the deputy mayor for education, continues to suggest that the 2018 Master…

Many DC students returning to school on Monday will find new classrooms, new programming space and new greenery on campuses across the District, thanks to $450 million worth of modernization projects completed over the summer. The…

A few weeks after the DC Council voted, with enthusiastic guidance from Chairman Phil Mendelson, to disapprove the DC Public Education Master Facilities Plan 2018, Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter indicating her “disappointment” with the…

Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon last week on Ward 1’s newly renovated Bancroft Elementary School, which reopened to students Monday after a $68 million makeover that took nearly two years. The Aug. 17 ceremony kicked off a series of…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 18, 2018 CONTACT: Susana Castillo (EOM) Mayor Bowser Cuts the Ribbon at the Newly Modernized Boone Elementary School  School Name Changes from Orr to Lawrence E. Boone Elementary, Reflecting School that…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 18, 2018 CONTACT: Susana Castillo (EOM) Mayor Bowser Cuts the Ribbon at Newly Modernized Murch Elementary School  14 Schools Modernized Under Bowser Administration Including 6 Opening this Fall …