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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Are you aware that the elementary school districts are being changed?</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> If the new proposal is adopted by PG county on Dec 15, children in much</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> of Ward One that currently attend Riverdale Elementary will soon attend</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Paint Branch Elementary. There may be good and bad in the change, that</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> is for you to decide. It is certainly a good bit further away and will require a</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> bus ride.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> This affects the homes in Ward One that lie between the railroad</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> tracks and Route One, all the way south to Madison Street and</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> all the way north into College Park.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Some parts of Ward One (west of Route One) now attend University</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Park Elementary, and some attend Hyattsville Elementary. These</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> particular boundaries are not changing in the proposed new plan.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> However, the plan is in flux, and this could change.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The next public meeting about this is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 6,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> at Nicholas Orem Middle School, 6100 Editors Park Dr, Hyattsville Md.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Lots of info about the change is here:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> www.pgcps.org/~pasb/</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> It has an excellent map system that shows the boundaries and how they will change.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The Univ Park Elementary school will be massively affected by the proposed changes</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> and many parents there are actively fighting it. Their PTA has info about it here:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~univpark/pta.html</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Here is one of the Univ Park activists sites:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> www.rfmartin.com</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> -Rob Oppenheim</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Candidate for Town Council, Ward One.</FONT></div>
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