Last week, the board of trustees of Friendship Public Charter School and I broke ground at the site of what will become the campus of the Friendship Technology Preparatory Academy. Construction of the academy will be complete when the new school year begins in August 2014.
This $22 million investment is taking place in the Congress Heights neighborhood of the District’s Ward 8, an area long underserved by D.C.’s public schools. One in five Ward 8 adults is unemployed; one in two children lives in poverty; and one in two adults is functionally illiterate.
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