COUNCILMEMBER DAVID GROSSO

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE

on

The District of Columbia Public Schools’ Plans for Shaw

Junior High School Campus and Benjamin Banneker Academic High School

on

Thursday, November 15, 2018

10:00 a.m., Hearing Room 500, John A. Wilson Building

1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004

            Councilmember David Grosso announces the scheduling of a public roundtable on The District of Columbia’s Public Schools’ Plans for Shaw Junior High School Campus and Benjamin Banneker Academic High School. The roundtable will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 15, 2018 in Hearing Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building. 

            The purpose of this roundtable is to hear testimony from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education and the District of Columbia Public Schools on plans to relocate the Shaw Junior High School campus to Benjamin Banneker Academic High School.

The Committee invites the public to testify or submit written testimony. Those who wish to testify may sign-up online at http://bit.do/educationhearings or call the Committee on Education at (202) 724-8061 by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 13, 2018. Persons wishing to testify are encouraged to bring 10-15 copies of their written testimony.

If you are unable to testify at the roundtable, written statements are encouraged and will be made a part of the official record.  Written statements should be submitted by email to Ashley Strange, Committee Assistant, at astrange@dccouncil.us, or by post to the Committee on Education, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite 116 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20004. The record will close at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 29, 2018.