Dumbarton Oaks
We Need Your Support for Hyde Addison!
We need your support to ensure that the improvements to Hyde-Addison go forward as planned! Right now the city is finalizing a budget, and the council needs to hear from citizens to demand that the 2016 budget specifically include a budget for the critical improvements that have been long promised to Georgetown’s elementary school. Please consider adding your name to the petition by following this link!
Here’s the petition:
TO: Chairman Mendelson, Chairman Grosso, Councilmember Evans, Councilmember Allen, Councilmember Bonds, Councilmember Alexander
CC: Mayor Bowser, Deputy Mayor Niles, Chancellor HendersonOur Hyde-Addison E.S. community is grateful the Mayor’s FY16 Budget Proposal includes $22.8m for the completion of our campus modernization. However, our community was stunned to see the Proposed Budget delays the funding and construction start date for our Hyde-Addison Addition until 2017 despite being assured on March 26, 2015 that construction would begin in May/June 2016.
CC: Mayor Bowser, Deputy Mayor Niles, Chancellor HendersonOur Hyde-Addison E.S. community is grateful the Mayor’s FY16 Budget Proposal includes $22.8m for the completion of our campus modernization. However, our community was stunned to see the Proposed Budget delays the funding and construction start date for our Hyde-Addison Addition until 2017 despite being assured on March 26, 2015 that construction would begin in May/June 2016.
Without this reallocation of the funding into FY16, our campus modernization—which DGS has been working on since fall 2012—will be stopped mid-way and our children will suffer. Our modernization has already been delayed three times. It was originally scheduled to start in 2013, then 2014 and most recently in 2015.
Simply put, our children and community must not be expected to wait three more years before having access to a fully-resourced campus—complete with sorely needed athletic space, additional classroom space, an updated media center, all-school meeting and performance space and ADA-compliant fixtures.
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FACTS ABOUT HYDE-ADDISON E.S:
-2014-2015 school year: enrollment of 305 students, facilities are >100% capacity
-41% in-boundary; 59% out-of-boundary
-students from all 8 Wards
-951 applications for SY2015-2016 Lottery
-strong year-on-year academic performance
-excellent teachers
-dynamic, visionary principal
-highly regarded special needs programming
WHY DOES HYDE-ADDISON NEED AN ADDITION?
-we do not have a gymnasium and/or athletic fields—of a total 58 DCPS elementary schools, we are the only one that does not have functioning indoor and/or outdoor athletic space
-we do not have any unused classrooms to accommodate new students—according to the most recent Master Facilities Plan, the City projects our in-boundary student population will double in the next couple years; in addition to this growth, last year’s School Boundary Plan expanded Hyde-Addison’s boundaries to take in more students from neighboring Burleith
-we have no indoor meeting space
-we have no performing arts space
-our library is under-resourced and sits in a small basement room
-our cafeteria is too small for our current enrollment
-our campus is not ADA compliant
-our campus’ two buildings are not connected—our children must walk through rain, snow, ice and heat in order to move from one building to the other for lunch, science, library, the front office or the nurse
-we cannot provide arts instruction on-campus
-our kids lose an hour instructional time each week because we must bus them off-site for curriculum-mandated arts instruction
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The cat cafe is not really going to be a cafe.
- Houston-based women’s clothing store to take over half of Bistro Francais.
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Old Georgetown in Color: Hoya Football
Today for Old Georgetown in Color, GM brings some color to an old Hoya. This here is Agositino ‘Augie’ Lio, from the GU class of 1941. He was apparently rather versatile, playing fullback, guard and tackle. He went on to play professionally for seven years, for the Detroit Lions, the Boston Yanks, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Baltimore Colts.
After his playing days, Lio spent 37 years writing for the Herald and News of Passaic, Nw Jersey. He passed away in 1989.
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An Apology
Earlier today I posted a link to a letter to the editor of the Hoya and criticized its writer (a Georgetown resident) for harboring bigoted opinions on gay rights. I failed to realize the letter was actually written nine years ago (despite its age, it’s still linked to from the front page of the Hoya website). Once this careless mistake was pointed out to me, I deleted the post immediately.
While I certainly object to the opinions expressed by the letter, times have changed a lot since 2006 and it wasn’t fair to bring up such an old letter and suggest it was only recently written. I apologize to the writer.
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Bike to Work 2015
May 15th is Bike to Work Day here in DC. And as it has the last couple years, Georgetown is participating in the festivities.
Bike to Work Day was started way back in 1956 by the League of American Cyclists. Recently it has grown in popularity, particularly in cities like DC that are putting serious efforts into encouraging those that can to consider riding around town on a bike.
How it works is that you register here and select a pit stop to stop at during your trip on Friday. These locations will have on hand “bike ambassadors” to answer any questions you have about biking and how to incorporate it more into your routine. Also, you’ll be entered to win prizes, such as a free bike. Plus there’s free food and drinks to help power your ride into work.
This year Georgetown will have just one pit stop this year, at the intersection of K and Wisconsin. It will be open from 7:30 to 9:30 am.
You get some pretty good stuff, like the stuff GM got a few years ago:
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Mike Maguire.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The cat cafe if hiring, but not, you know, paying.
- GM heard that the team behind the new liquor store at Wagner’s are behind Sherry’s in Woodley Park.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Marc Andre.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- GU students stand up against hate.
- When Springsteen played at the Bayou.
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