DC council giving away DCPS property to Lab School
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Anonymous
+1 DCPS is paying full fare tuition for students to attend Lab, a 40K/year private school. Why should they get a prime piece of public school property at a subsidized rate, without a public bidding process, when schools in Ward 3 are overcrowded with trailers? |
Anonymous
I don't know either. It's really weird like someone has a grudge against the Lab School. The area is very low density with major large land holders(Corps of Engineers, Georgetown, St Pats, GDS, OLV, Safeway, Germany embassy, park land) vs residential density. |
Anonymous
According to the OSSE audit it's 45 students out of 377: http://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2015%20Enrollment%20Audit%20Report.pdf Less than 12%. |
Anonymous
No grudge. The neighboring dcps schools are overcrowded and want the space to move kids out of trailers. Why should dc taxpayers pay to educate mostly out of state kids? |
Anonymous
+1 Lab is a wonderful school. But at $40K per kid per year, it can afford to get its own piece of real estate without getting a sweetheart deal from DCPS. |
Anonymous
This is such classic Lab School-think. "The only possible reason someone could disagree with us is they don't agree with our mission." No, the neighbors want the property for their own kids. "Nobody lives there anyway." I'm sure it looks that way when you're coming in from VA and MD on Canal Road, but there's 20,000 people who live in ANC 3D. Every single school in Ward 3 is over capacity. The number one issue in Ward 3 schools is crowding. You probably don't ever visit the DC public schools forum (because it's DC and public), but go look at the 17-page thread there on crowding and then report back. |
Anonymous
Is there a reason Lab should get this land as part of an "emergency" disposition of the DC Council without any process for public comment or without allowing others to bid on this land? Because the Council tried to give it away as part of an emergency procedure for a lease of 80K a year, i.e. 6.6K per month, i.e. about the same price of renting a house in Ward 3, except that this is a 50K square foot lot with a huge building on it. And DC is unlikely to receive any of this rent, because Lab can deduct any amount it puts towards renovations. So yes, some of us see non-transparent gifts of public property to private schools when public schools are overcrowded as a "problem." |
Anonymous
| There is no reason. Except that bowser staffers have kids that attend. And maybe the baron will attend. |
Anonymous
Even if it were 100% I don't see how it would matter. There are dozens of private schools in DC, most of them do some special ed. You don't see them looking for handouts. |
Anonymous
Another PR blitz must be underway, the Lab sock puppets are back! |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| I am getting very tired of the DC money and property giveaway. Vote any Republican candidate. Please. |
Anonymous
It won't be any better with the republicans. They'll sell the building to the lab school for 7 cents on the dollar and extend the lab school tax abatements for the next 10 years. |
Anonymous
David Catania has been lobbying for the Lab School. He's as close as they come in DC to a Republican. |
Anonymous
You know this based on the time our Republican city council ran amuk and gave away all our money? |