Cheverly Advocates for Public Schools

Spellman Beautification Day a Huge Success!

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:52:54 +0000

On Saturday, August 16, 19 adults and 10 children responded to Principal Susan Holiday’s invitation to help beautify Spellman in time for the start of the new school year. We removed bags and bags of weeds and trash, planted Black-Eyed Susans (donated by CAPS), put down mulch (donated by the Town) and generally helped make the front of the school look fabulous. The volunteers included Principal Holiday and her family; a Spellman staff member; parents of Spellman students; a teenage Spellman alumnus; and, Cheverly residents without kids, with older kids and with pre-school aged kids. State Delegate Jolene Ivey even joined us, rolling up her sleeves and getting right to work. It is just this kind of all-Cheverly involvement that CAPS wants to facilitate to support our local public schools. Many thanks to everyone who came out to help. Special thanks to Ann Barsi for remembering to bring a camera! Click on the picture below to see the whole day!!

Cheverly Schools Open House, July 2, Community Center

admin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:12:10 +0000

An open house sponsored by the Town of Cheverly. Gladys Noon Spellman, Judith P. Hoyer, St. Ambrose and Cheverly Weekday Nursery have ben invited. In addition Mrs. Bridgewaters and School Board Rep. Amber Waller have been invited. Each of the principals will have the opportunity to speak to introduce themselves and their school to the public.

Win $500 and support Cheverly Advocates for Public Schools

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:04:39 +0000

Thanks to a very generous donation by the Town of Cheverly,
CAPS (Cheverly Advocates for Public Schools) is hosting a fundraising
raffle!

All proceeds will benefit CAPS and be used for initiatives to support our
local public schools. For example, to help pay for the required
fingerprinting and background checks for volunteers for those who want to
volunteer in the schools.

Grand prize: $500 (in the form of a Visa or American Express Giftcard)

Tickets are $10 each.

Only 100 tickets will be sold!

Each ticket has a 1:100 chance of winning!!!

Drawing will be held in two weeks at the Cheverly Day Dance (May 16).

Buy your ticket ASAP — when they’re gone, they’re gone!

To purchase your ticket, contact any of the CAPS co-chairs listed below:

Katherine Browning — 301-341-5026 or
Chad Clay — 301-773-1252 or
Don Tyler — 202-391-4923 or
Aimee Olivo — 301-322-6186 or

CAPS hosts town education meeting

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:50:12 +0000

On The 23rd of April CAPS hosted a Cheverly Town meeting on the topic of education. Below is a summary of that meeting.

The new model of JP Hoyer was announced and discussed. In essence that plan is that for the 2008-2009 school year the school will be adding 3 more Montessori classrooms. 2 classrooms that will serve 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders. 1 classroom will be added to the current 1 to serve 3-5 year olds. In all bringing the school up to 4 Montessori classrooms. for the 2008-2009 school year 4 year old students can enroll directly to the school. All other levels and ages will be filled from the wait list from Robert Goddard. It has been highly suggested that if you have a student at one of these other levels to call the Principal @ Hoyer. For the 2009-2010 school year they will be adding 2 classrooms to serve students in grades 4-6. At this point the school will also have been assigned boundaries and entered into the same lottery system that serves other specialty programs in the county.

Assistant Superintendent Bridgewaters then announced and discussed the decision to bring in new leadership at Spellman. This conversation was long but in essence she outlined the process for hiring a Principal. Step one is HR screening the applicants, step 2 is interviews with a committee of Teachers and Parents, Then the candidates who pass that round go to the “chiefs” in Upper Marlboro, then the passing candidates from that round go to the Superintendent for final decision making. She also seemed to focus on the fact that they were looking for a leader that welcomed and would foster parent and community participation.

There was a brief conversation at the end regarding Weekday Nursery. Lots of praise for the program, and some ideas, and hopefully it go the subject on peoples minds. They are looking for ideas on how to grow the program.

$1,000,000 Dedicated to Spellman

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:18:26 +0000

Recently an article appeared in the Cheverly Newsletter ,February edition, Regarding a 1 million dollar donation to Spellman. After some looking by our Regional Assistant Superintendent the money has been located. Below is the document that the town received in regards to the disposition of the funds.

Funds Document