Stop Seed Charter School Expansion. Save Kingman Park! Defend Home Rule!

This is from email. I "love" the idea of Seed Charter School, which is a boarding institution. I don't like the idea of earmarks by the federal government about land use in the City of Washington overturning local planning.

And, I am no longer enamored of the charter school model, as I once was. There is no question that public education needs drastic "revitalization," although the problems start and end outside of the four walls of school buildings, there is no question that the problems are exacerbated within the school system...

I am merely passing this email along out of interest, I am not attesting to the veracity of the claims below.

Rally and Press Conference
Wednesday, April 26, 5:00 pm

SEED Foundation Offices
1712 “I” Street, NW
Washington, DC

Protest SEED’s outrageous attempt to get around home rule and take over 15 acres of riverside parkland at Kingman Park to build a gated campus for 600 students…most of whom will never graduate!!

· Since opening in 1998, SEED has spent more than $30 million of DC taxpayers’ money and only graduated 41 students.

· SEED students who don’t graduate are held back, expelled, or encouraged to leave—often with NO CREDITS.

· SEED went behind the backs of DC residents and got Congress to give it the Kingman Park land, with no community input in the decision!!

DON’T LET KINGMAN PARK GO TO SEED!!!

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

-- Frazer Walton, President, Kingman Park Civic Association
-- Emily Washington, Community Activist and Educator
-- two former SEED students
-- Councilmember Kwame Brown (At-Large)
-- Councilmember Adrian Fenty (Ward 4)
-- Jim Dougherty, Sierra Club

For more information: saveourschoolsdc@yahoo.com 202-521-0377

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