Calling All Members of the D.C. Public Charter School Community!

Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) is now the DC Charter School Alliance!

Please visit www.dccharters.org to learn about our new organization and to see the latest news and information related to DC charter schools.

The FOCUS DC website is online to see historic information, but is not actively updated.

Once again this year Mayor Gray’s proposed budget underfunds the public charter school facilities allowance.  This underfunding will play havoc with charter school budgets and make it harder for charters to get bank loans to acquire and renovate school space.  The D.C. Council can fix this problem by coming up $3.2 million by June 5 to include in the Fiscal Year 2013 budget. 

 

Show your support for D.C. public charter schools by calling and emailing your school's ward councilmember and each of the at-large councilmembers, starting with Kwame Brown.  Tell them that the council should fully fund the charter school facilities allowance.

 

Also, tell them that the Council should fix the school funding law by including amendments in the Budget Support Act requiring that all funding for public charter school and DCPS operations should flow through the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula. 

 

Finally, we ask that you join FOCUS at the Wilson Building next Wednesday morning at 10:30 for a show of force.  We need a minimum of 100 people to make an impression; 200 would be far better.  We will visit every councilmember and the mayor and deputy mayor for education to urge full funding of the facilities allowance.

 

Please contact Roland Roebuck, our Senior Community Organizer, or our Policy & Advocacy Associate, Lauren Outlaw, at 202 387-0405 to confirm your attendance or to ask any questions.

 

Councilmember

Phone Number

Email Address

 

 

 

Chair Kwame Brown

202 724-8032

kbrown@dccouncil.us

David Catania (At-Large)

202 724-7772

dcatania@dccouncil.us

Phil Mendelson (At-Large)

202 724-8064

pmendelson@dccouncil.us

Michael A. Brown (At-Large)

202 724-8015

mbrown@dccouncil.us

Vincent Orange (At-Large)

202 724-8174

vorange@dccouncil.us

Jim Graham (Ward 1)

202 724-8181

jgraham@dccouncil.us

Jack Evans (Ward 2)

202 724-8058

jevans@dccouncil.us

Mary Cheh (Ward 3)

202 724-8062

mcheh@dccouncil.us

Muriel Bowser (Ward 4)

202 724-8052

mbowser@dccouncil.us

Kenyan McDuffie (Ward 5)

202 724-8028

kmcduffie@dccouncil.us

Tommy Wells (Ward 6)

202 724-8072

twells@dccouncil.us

Yvette Alexander (Ward 7)

202 724-8068

yalexander@dccouncil.us

Marion Barry (Ward 8)

202 724-8045

mbarry@dccouncil.us