Save Blair Ewing

 The Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) proposes demolishing the Blair G. Ewing Center - formerly the Mark Twain School  (on Avery Road in Rockville) and redeveloping the site to accommodate the Shady Grove Transportation Depot. The Alternative Education Program (AEP) students would then be relocated to the former English Manor Elementary School (currently housing the School for Tomorrow), located at 4511 Bestor Drive in Aspen Hill.  As usual, no local communities or neighborhoods were contacted about these plans.

We received this from SaveBlairEwing.org and are reprinting it here:

Apparently, the Board of Education staff are encouraging our callers to NOT leave phone messages and instead email a central email for all Board members. As you know, the Board of Ed has refused to meet with us... and now they do not want to accept calls? Consider politely refusing to email the central email and ask to leave a message for one Board Member.   Then, call back again (doesn't hurt to space out the calls a little) and leave a message for one more member.... We want to jam their phone lines.  That's the point... We have less than a week to make sure English Manor is not chosen for a feasibility study for a potential Alternative Education Program (AEP) move. April 7: We will learn if English Manor is the MCPS proposed location for a feasibility study. April 14: Board of Ed will vote to approve a feasibility study. Tell the Board: 1) Do NOT do a feasibility study on English Manor for the AEP. 2) Make English Manor a community elementary school to ease area overcrowding. 3)  Now that the County Council has given the Board more time to keep buses at Jeremiah Park, there is no need to rush AEP's move to build a bus depot at Blair Ewing. Please call each Board member: • Rebecca Smondrowski: 301-279-3617 click here if you called. • Judith Docca: 301-670-3234 click here if you called. • Jill Ortman-Fouse: 301-279-3617 click here if you called. • Michael Durso: 301-924-3169 click here if you called. • Patricia O'Neill: 301-320-7600 click here if you called. • Philip Kauffman: 301-924-3133 click here if you called. • Christopher Barclay: 301-279-3617 click here if you called. • Dahlia Huh: 301-279-3617 click here if you called. Please forward this email to friends and neighbors.  We need to DOUBLE our calling and flood Board members with calls.