Reminder: Civic Fed meeting Mon, June 13th - Charter Schools 101

Please join the Civic Fed for a program on Charter Schools in Montgomery County.

Paula Bienenfeld

Chair, Education Committee, Montgomery County Civic Federation

Monday, June 13, 2011
7:45 p.m.
County Council Building - 1st Floor Auditorium
100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland

For Directions go here.

Program: "Charter Schools 101: Let's Start the Conversation"
Speakers: David Borinsky, Chair, Board of the Maryland Charter School Network
Joseph A. Hawkins, Board Member for the proposed Global Garden Public Charter School
Darren Woodruff, Ph.D., Member, District of Columbia Public Charter School Board

And, come to celebrate the Community Hero Award to the Save our Parks/Preserve Our Community Coalition which was formed to save the 17-acre Rosemary Hills-Lyttonsville Public Park from becoming the site for the B-CC Middle School. They successfully fought off that challenge. In the face of that opposition the MCPS Board of Education (BOE) voted instead to conduct a feasibility study for the site at another public park, Rock Creek Hills Park, in Kensington. In response, the Coalition is working with the Kensington community to make sure that our public parks are not taken over by the BOE. In response also, the Civic Fed has a proposed resolution on the table to be discussed at the June 13th meeting to make sure our public parks are not taken for other uses.