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The last day of school for DCPS students is now June 17.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced today that she is sparing five of the 20 schools she says are under-enrolled and have to be closed.

As news broke yesterday of a list of 20 D.C. public schools that city officials want to see closed, many parents received a phone call from what sounded like a robot-version of Chancellor Kaya Henderson informing them of the plan.

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. Rhee told the Post why some schools were added to the closure list and others reprieved, citing outdated…

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. Earlier this year, Fenty and Rhee were criticized by a few squeaky wheels for their selection of schools to be “rightsized” due to low enrollment, and a revised list…

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. In his column in Sunday’s Post, Marc Fisher called out the “knee-jerk politicians” on the D.C. Council, notably Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry, for their sudden shift to…

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. Bruce-Monroe, Burroughs, Green and Smothers elementary schools, as well as Brown Middle School and Shaw Junior High School, will remain open….