Save Our Schools Rally & March!

As DC public school advocates predicted, the school closings of 2008 didn’t improve test scores or student achievement and have negatively impacted community after community throughout the city.  So here we are at the end of 2012, poised to take another dive off the school closings precipice, this time at the behest of Mayor Gray and Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.  I’m betting that you have had enough.  I know I have.  No one who cares about children wants to hear any more stories like the one Empower DC member Marybeth Tinker recorded in the video below.  In it two young students from Thurgood Marshall Elementary tell us why the proposal to close their school is just plain WRONG!

No one who cares about DC’s children and DC’s communities wants to hear any more stories like the one you’ll hear in the podcast below produced by La Palabra.

Break It Down: School Closures in Washington DC

Michelle Powell walks her granddaughter to Ferebee-Hope Elementary every day.  Her family has already dealt with 3 school closures in Ward 8 and is now faced with a fourth school being closed (Ferebee-Hope).  Listen to Mrs. Powell’s story and understand why school closures hurt our communities and our children.

To hear her story, follow this link –  http://lapalabradc.tumblr.com/post/37667510236/break-it-down-school-closures-in-washington

Which is why you’ve decided to join the fight to stop school closings in the District of Columbia.  You’ve been looking for a chance to take a stand.  Here it is:

JOIN DC PUBLIC SCHOOL PARENTS, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS FROM WARD 8 @ THE

SAVE OUR SCHOOLS RALLY & MARCH
Thursday, December 13, 2012 – 4:30 PM
RALLY at Malcolm X Elementary School
1351 Alabama Avenue SE
(Near Congress Heights Metro on the Green Line)
then MARCH to the home of
MAYOR VINCENT GRAY
Branch Avenue SE

Ward 8’s Malcolm X Elementary, Ferebee Hope Elementary, MC Terrell Elementary and Johnson Middle School are all on the list of schools to be closed. Your school may not be on the list this year, but it might be next. It’s time to take a STAND! For more information, contact Trayon White, Ward 8 Representative to the State Board of Education at 202-316-7593.