The school has regular graffiti cleaning,[5] students have received free dental care,[6] and D.C. Discovery Days give them field trips out of the neighborhood.[7] Nevertheless, in 2007 a student from Tubman joined others in voicing concern over safety in the public school district.[8] 85% of the student body qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.[6]
Awards and recognition
First Lady Michelle Obama and Students from Harriet Tubman Elementary School Film an Episode of Puppy Bowl for Animal Planet
Former principal Sadia M. White won a National Distinguished Principals award in 2004 for her work at Tubman. According to National Association of Elementary School Principals, under White, Tubman Elementary met all its goals for standardized test scores and White supervised the launch of an inclusion-teaching model featuring team-teaching by general education, special education teachers, and teachers of new English-language learners. The association also commended her institution of a comprehensive school-wide positive-approach discipline program that included a due process system for punishment referrals and intervention strategies for classroom teachers for preventing problems.[9][10][11][12]
In 2005, Cory Chimka, fourth grade teacher at Harriet Tubman, was named National Kind Teacher of the Year by the National Association for Humane & Environmental Education.
Roderick Raynor Paige served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, moved from college football coach and classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African American to serve as the U.S. education chief.
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