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The Current

Council grants parent-run programs reprieve on rent By KATIE PEARCE Current Staff Writer

A city policy that recently put a language program at Lafayette Elementary at risk has now inspired new legislation, along with a call for the city to rework its rules for rentals of school space. Last week the D.C. Council unanimously passed an emergency bill from Ward 3 member Mary Cheh, which allows before-school Spanish classes to continue at Lafayette. Parents had worried the popular program would have to fold due to recently enforced $1,000 monthly rental fees. While the new bill was “certainly crafted to cover� the Lafayette program, Cheh said, it will have a broader impact across the city. The legislation prohibits the District from charging rent to parentrun nonprofit enrichment programs that take place before or after school

in D.C. Public Schools building space. Though the legislation was passed “as emergency and temporary, to carry us through the school year,� Cheh said, it sets up a foundation for the future. The bill includes a directive for the D.C. Department of General Services, requiring the agency to develop new procedures for these types of enrichment programs by March. For Cheh’s office, the struggles of the Spanish program at Lafayette helped underscore the need to revamp the existing rules. Parents first developed the offering 14 years ago to compensate for Lafayette’s lack of foreign-language instruction, according to current parent organizer Julie Stewart. The program, which has enrolled about 85 kids this year and hired nine teachers, uses space in the Chevy Chase school building three mornings a See Lafayette/Page 15

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Bowling alley planned for Georgetown mall By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer

A small chain of upscale restaurants that feature bowling and bocce plans to open its first East Coast location in the Shops at Georgetown Park mall in the second or third quarter of 2013, the company’s founder said yesterday. Pinstripes, which has three locations in the Chicago area and one outside Minneapolis, will offer “sophisticated fun� in its Georgetown location, Dale Schwartz said in an interview. “The ambiance and the

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