Thurgood Marshall Academy seeks Director of Special Education

About Thurgood Marshall Academy: Thurgood Marshall Academy grew out of the experience of law students and professors in the Street Law clinical program at Georgetown University Law Center who witnessed how limited opportunities stunted the academic and social development of students in Ward 8. They also saw an opportunity to use legal principles as teaching tools to educate and empower the students that they encountered.

Thurgood Marshall Academy received its charter from the PCSB in April 2001, and opened its doors to 86 9th graders in August 2001; it then added a grade each year until it served students in grades 9–12; the school received accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in 2008.

Thurgood Marshall Academy is a college-preparatory, law-themed high school located in the Anacostia neighborhood of southeast Washington, DC—the most under-served community in the District of Columbia. Its mission is to prepare students to succeed in college and to actively engage in our democratic society. The school currently serves approximately 400 students in grades 9–12, and offers a standards-based, college preparatory academic program to all of its students. The curriculum strives to help students develop their own voice by teaching them the skills lawyers have—the ability to solve complex problems, think critically and advocate persuasively for themselves and their communities.