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Response to Michelle Rhee Letter June 2008

July 8, 2008 Chancellor Michelle Rhee   825 North Capitol St. NE 9th Floor Washington, DC  20002 Dear Ms. Rhee, I am responding to your letter dated June 19.  There are several factual errors in the letter, which I will correct here. First of all, I contacted Ms. Greer after going to Stuart-Hobson for the lunch time meeting on February 27.  This was because upon returning to the office I received a call from our faculty advisor, Mr. Leonard Booker saying that Principal Brandon Eatman had called him and said that he had not received word that my background check had...

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Metro Teen AIDS Email

From: Jeremy Ogusky [mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:02 PMSubject: DC's Abstinence Awareness Week next week Hello all, A short email to put on your collective radar DC’s Abstinence Awareness Week next week (3/10 – 3/16) with the stated purpose, “to increase awareness that abstinence from sex outside of marriage is a desirable choice for individuals”. Improbable but true:  Alex, maybe DC Fights Back would want to stage an action at one of their activities? Chris, maybe SMYAL would want...

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Save Abstinence & Values Education in DC (Save DC) Coalition

Save Abstinence & Values Education in DC (SAVE DC) Coalition 1/17/08 View Press Release Dear Mayor Fenty, We the undersigned ask you to immediately launch an independent investigation into why ULTRA Teen Choice, a directive abstinence education program has been expelled from DC Public Schools by Chancellor Michelle Rhee (please see attached Press Release).  We also ask you to reinstate the program as soon as possible. The effort to oust ULTRA Teen Choice from DC Public Schools was initiated last spring by a woman who circulated an email attacking the co-founders’ religious...

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View Press Release

Contact: Richard Urban 202-544-5081  SAVE DC Coalition asks Mayor Fenty to launch an independent investigation about the expulsion of ULTRA Teen Choice from DC Public Schools At a press conference and rally today , the SAVE DC Coalition called for Mayor Fenty to immediately launch an independent investigation into why ULTRA Teen Choice, a directive abstinence education program has been expelled from DC Public Schools.  ULTRA Teen Choice, a directive abstinence education program that provides classroom HIV & Teen Pregnancy Prevention education, peer counseling by abstinent youth, and...

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Hidden Agenda for New District of Columbia Proposed Health Education Standards

Hidden Agenda for new District of Columbia proposed Health Education Standards       Activists hope that the DC Board of Education will adopt new Health Education Standards that will effectively ban programs that do not adhere to these standards from DC public schools. This has already happened at Stuart-Hobson Middle School, where ULTRA Teen Choice has been ordered to stop its directive HIV/AIDS prevention program that provides education, peer support and mentoring for youth wishing to refrain from drugs, alcohol and sex before marriage.     A memo sent form the Local School...

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