Brown Breaks Ground to Bring Phelps Vocational High School Online
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WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, July 31, 2007, D.C. Councilmember At-Large Kwame R. Brown will join D.C. Public School Administrators, local carpentry associations and former instructors to break ground to mark the start of construction on the new Phelps Architecture, Construction & Engineering High School.
As both former student of-then Phelps Career High School and a firm advocate for restoring vocational education in the District, Brown is elated kick-off the construction activities that will strengthen the District’s educational infrastructure.
Igniting educational reform, Brown co-introduced the law “School Modernization Financing Act of 2005, providing the largest funding increase of the District’s public educational system. In 2006, Brown authored the amendment to the “School Modernization Financing Act of 2005,” to earmark funds to reopen Phelps by Fall 2008. April 2007, Brown along with members of the D.C. Council approved emergency actions for $30 million to rebuild Phelps. Reopening of the career facility will provide students with the necessary training to meet the demand future construction opportunities throughout the city.
WHO: D.C. Councilmember At-Large Kwame R. Brown
Mayor Adrian Fenty; DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee; Allen Lew, Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization; Harry Thomas Jr., D.C. Councilmember Ward 5
WHAT: Groundbreaking Ceremony for the New Phelps Architecture, Construction & Engineering High School
WHEN: Thursday, July 31, 2007 at 10:00am
WHERE: Phelps School Grounds
704 26th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
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As a 1959 graduate of Phelps Vocational High School, I am interested in the happenings involving the renovation process of my Alma Mata.
I left DC in ‘59 to enlist in the USAF, and since then I’ve retired in NW Florida. I have returned to my old neighborhood (in early July 2007) and I was a bit perturbed to see that Phelps had been closed for several years??
Please, if possible, provide me with info that will enable me to contact the staff at the school……as I do plan on revisiting DC in the not too far future and I would like to visit the new facility.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Mr. King,
Please call the number on the brochure at this website address:
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/Learn-About-Schools/Phelps%20Architecture%20Construction%20and%20Engineering%20HS.pdf