Truth be told, Garrison's boosters meant well but played a lot of politics and got themselves pushed ahead of other schools with greater needs. So even if they get pushed back, I can't feel that bad for them. |
Murch has a start date of June 2016. And the city has to be held to that, because the need is so severe and it is has already been pushed back for years. |
Good luck Murch. |
Greater need? They were going to be shut down. |
Maybe it would have made more sense in terms of money to close it though. |
The point was that other schools had more significant physical needs. |
There are lots of needs. DCPS seems to pick randomly among them and then once they have invested enough, they drop them for the next. But there is never any planning that leads to completed goals. People are often saying that the problems are the fault of the parents who choose other schools, and that if the neighborhoods banded together, DCPS would serve them wonderfully. This just isn't true, and Garrison proves that. |
I think your pessimism is misplaced. This reprogramming request started under Gray, was retracted, and is now being put forward again. It seems to me that DCPS is driving it, not necessarily the mayor. I say that as a (former?) Catania supporter and someone on the losing end of this funding shift. |
I hope you are right. It's not looking good to me right now though. |
Agree with this sentiment. While I am not defending Bowser, this is clearly an early, if not pre-administration conversation that probably began "we have an issue that we need to speak with you about that we feel requires immediately attention.... She clearly inherited this mess and was likely left with no choice regarding how to act. |
It may appear this way if you only entered the game last year, but Garrison was slated for an initial (Phase I) modernization all the way back in 2008 that never happenned...and the can has been kicked down the road ever since. Finally the activists got Kaya to agree to a full modernization in 2015 (way more efficient) after getting pushed again in 2014. It's the worst extant facility in the city, with the possible exception of Payne, so this is a potential disaster for the community. |
I am not sure I fully understand what this mean for Garrison. Is the plan for renovation over and done with? It sounds like it? The facility so badly in need of an overhaul. |
Garrison is in way better shape than Marie Reed. Reed is the one I feel really bad for. It has the worst facilities of the 20 schools I toured last year, by far. |
There is still $2.5 million in the budget for Garrison, so it looks like that is for planning/design and the work has just been kicked down the road. |
I never understood the Garrison folks. I went to one of the meetings as I live in the neighborhood and none of the vocal folks even had kids at Garrison. Made no sense. |