After three years of fractious controversy, spending for construction of a $56-million, 550-seat public elementary school at Hardy Park at the east end of Palisades has been cut from Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2023 budget proposal. The school would have landed in the middle of the Foxhall area, where Bob Avery is president of the community…
There’s the celebrated Washington, D.C., of grand acts on the national and global stage. And there’s the nearer life of the city itself. In the Civil War’s wake, an African American community sprouted in Anacostia and thrived. It was called Barry Farm. There was room enough for house and garden, and orchards and farms that…
The removal of protest signs more than a week ago from a Hardy Park fence leaves a whodunit. But one city agency provided a clue about who didn’t do it. “I’m unable to find any information to suggest that MPD removed the signs,” a Metropolitan Police Department public affairs specialist, Alaina Gertz, told Potomac Times…
Signs protesting a city government plan for a new school on Hardy Park land were cleared off a Park entrance fence sometime over this past weekend. The signs, posted at Q and 45th streets, near Foxhall Road, had been accumulating for months, with growing concern about the Park’s future. “So far, I don’t believe anyone…
The Georgetown Day School campus on MacArthur Boulevard has been sold to the city. The school’s chief financial officer, Jeffrey Houser, said that “as of today,” the campus has been sold to DCPS. Houser declined to elaborate. D.C. property records show a transaction valued at $45,250,000.
Sale of Georgetown Day School’s MacArthur Boulevard campus, expected to be completed at the end of this month, has been delayed. Closing of the deal, in the works for the past 2.5 years, has been put off “a couple” or “a few” months, GDS Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Houser said today. He said the buyer…
DCPS facilities planners are eyeing the tree-studded green on the south side of the old Hardy School to build an elementary school. A 70,000- to 80,000-square-foot school is envisioned, with enrollment between 450 and 550 students, according to city and DCPS officials. Planning for the Foxhall elementary school remains fluid and community meetings are expected,…
The new Foxhall school proposal jolts an already unsettled school landscape in the Palisades.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2021 budget proposal calls for building a $56 million Foxhall Elementary School on the site of the old Hardy School at Foxhall Road and Q Street. The $56,354,00, with the funding to be spread from 2023 to 2025, is to “design and construct a school facility to address Ward 3 enrollment…
A draft resolution from ANC 3D takes a dim view of legislation introduced by Councilmembers Vincent Gray and David Grosso that would impose controls on PTA spending on public schools. The draft resolution, which includes a lengthy analysis, appears on the ANC’s agenda for tonight’s meeting at 7 at Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Mass. Ave.,…
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