Results tagged “schoolclosures”

Last night, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee hosted yet another community meeting to receive feedback concerning schools scheduled for closure due to low-enrollment and poor building conditions. The Post reports that only about 100 people attended the meeting, which was held specifically to discuss the four schools that were added to a revised list earlier this month.

Mayor Adrian Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee today announced that they will hold a community meeting concerning the schools recently proposed for closure on Wednesday, February 27th, at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at McKinley Technical Senior High School, 151 T Street NE.

Last week, Mayor Adrian Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee released their revised school closure list, which spared six schools and added an additional four, a move that has caused most education watchers to declare any lingering controversy over the closures to be all but dead.

The Post reports from Mayor Adrian Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's press conference earlier this morning that six of 23 D.C. public schools on the original closure list will remain open, while four others have now been added to the proposal list. The changes brings the total of planned school closures to 21.