Ward 6 city council candidates address education issues March 6, 6:30-8:00 pm at Stuart-Hobson Middle School (410 E St NE)

Please join us to hear Ward 6 city council candidates address education issues on March 6, 6:30 - 8:00 pm at Stuart-Hobson Middle School. 
 

The forum will be moderated by Emma Brown, education reporter for the Washington Post. Students from Ward 6 middle schools will also participate, after working with CHPSPO partners, Future Civic Leaders and the DC Urban Debate League.

 

 

 

March 6 Forum on Education Issues
With Ward 6 City Council Candidates

 

Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization to Sponsor Education-focused Candidate Forum 

on March 6, 6:30-8:00 pm at Stuart-Hobson Middle School

 

On Thursday, March 6, the Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization (CHPSPO) will sponsor a forum with candidates running in the April 1 primary for the Ward 6 city council seat. The forum will focus on education issues.

 

Emma Brown, education reporter for the Washington Post, will moderate the discussion.

 

The forum will be held March 6, 6:30-8:00 pm at Stuart-Hobson Middle School, 410 E St., NE.

 

CHPSPO is working with students from all three Ward 6 middle schools -- Eliot-Hine, Stuart-Hobson, and Jefferson-- to involve their student governments and social studies classes in planning the forum. Two partner organizations – Future Civic Leaders and the DC Urban Debate League – will help prepare students to participate in the forum. Students will learn about asking good questions of candidates for public office, they will formulate the first set of questions for the candidates, and they will ask questions of candidates at the forum.

 

This is an important time in our city for many important education issues-- from funding, to boundaries and feeder patters, to preschool education, to school quality across the district, and school choice. Join us to hear Ward 6 City Council candidates address these education issues – and ask them your questions.

 

Not only will this forum help our community learn more about our candidates' positions on important education issues, it will be a chance for middle schools students to interact directly with candidates for office – and practice skills of future civic leaders.