hard to get into Duke Ellington?

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Anonymous wrote:Very. There's an audition, exam, and family interview.

So why, with the latest $200 million subsidy from D.C. Taxpayers, does Ellington take kids from Maryland while it turns away kids from Washington?!

Go to an open house and ask.

Why don't you tell us taxpayers. We'd love to know why we're subsidizing MoCo and PG kids when DC kids are being rejected. How is educating Maryland students part of Ellington's mission?

If no bass players from DC apply, and a talented bass player from Silver Spring wants to pay tuition and attend, why not?

So you're telling us that zero D.C. kids are turned away in favor of MD kids?

No, simply that it's not as simple as you make it out to be. A DC kid who has no talent, or an empty slot, will go to an out of state kid. They decide yes/no on all the DC kids before they consider any from out of state.

In addition, the percentage of tuition paying students is capped at 10%. The out of state enrollment is below that limit now (42 out of 575).

But instead of essentially having 10 percent of sears thst are officially for out of district students (ignoring the fraudsers), why doesn't Ellington do more outreach to recruit a greater number of talented D.C. Kids?

They are in every high school, they are at Ed Fest, they recruit at DCYO, and community based arts group.

Applications have been down while they were in swing space for 3 years. THey've also had interim heads of school for 3 years, which isn't ideal.

I would imagine the building will spur new interest now -- especially as SWW gets more competitive and Wilson gets more crowded. And there is now permanent leadership in place.

Perhaps, but then Ellington will have to enhance its academic quality. It may be good in arts, but no way is comparable academically to SWW or even Wilson.

If the student body at SWW or the "yale" contingent at Wilson enrolled at Ellington, it would be fine. The cohort dictates the quality.

That incredibly shortsighted view is sadly quite prevalent in DCPS. If that's true, then they should just fire most of the teachers and administrators and send every DC taxpayer a big fat refund check.

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Anonymous wrote:I recall reading once that Ellington wasn't chartered for the students in DC. It was formed to provide an arts education principally to students of color. That's its mission and culture. So that would mean that kids from PG might have a stronger moral right to an Ellington education than snowflakes from Ward 3.

Can you please substantiate this. Sounds like reverse racism and classism (I'm assuming by snowflake you mean rich kids - who are also entitled to a free and public education).

No need to waste anyone's time trying to substantiate this bs as it isn't true now (and not sure if it ever was).

Ellington parent here:

Ellington's mission and how it operates is governed by a detailed MOU with DCPS.

Regarding recruitment, Ellington has a full-time person who recruits year-round at all the DC middle and charter schools. They are at every high school fair, DCEdFest and many other places. This past year there were almost 700 applications for about 190 offers.

Regarding APs and academic challenge, I would say that it's mostly fine. There are honors courses in 9th grade and APs starting in 10th (with the occasional gifted kid starting earlier). The "rigor" varies from teacher to teacher, course to course. Personally I don't want my kid to have a ton of homework-- she's already in school from 8:30 to 5:00 pm. Many Ellington students stay much later for rehearsals. They each take 10 classes, six academic and four art courses. It's a lot and kids can become very stressed. If a particular student wanted to, he or she could load up on foreign languages, extra science, advanced math and APs and it would be as heavy a course-load as anywhere. And of course as a senior a student can also take classes at a local university through a couple of DCPS-wide programs for which the student would have to apply.

Who is the idiot in the D.C. government who agreed to an MOU that gives DCPS no governance rights and Ellington's Board no accountability to the taxpayers? It privatizes governance and socializes cost.

I think it was signed in 2000 by Mayor Williams.

Wasn't Ellington founded in the Seventies when Mayor Crack was in charge?

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Anonymous wrote:Very. There's an audition, exam, and family interview.

So why, with the latest $200 million subsidy from D.C. Taxpayers, does Ellington take kids from Maryland while it turns away kids from Washington?!

Go to an open house and ask.

Why don't you tell us taxpayers. We'd love to know why we're subsidizing MoCo and PG kids when DC kids are being rejected. How is educating Maryland students part of Ellington's mission?

If no bass players from DC apply, and a talented bass player from Silver Spring wants to pay tuition and attend, why not?

So you're telling us that zero D.C. kids are turned away in favor of MD kids?

No, simply that it's not as simple as you make it out to be. A DC kid who has no talent, or an empty slot, will go to an out of state kid. They decide yes/no on all the DC kids before they consider any from out of state.

In addition, the percentage of tuition paying students is capped at 10%. The out of state enrollment is below that limit now (42 out of 575).

But instead of essentially having 10 percent of sears thst are officially for out of district students (ignoring the fraudsers), why doesn't Ellington do more outreach to recruit a greater number of talented D.C. Kids?

They are in every high school, they are at Ed Fest, they recruit at DCYO, and community based arts group.

Applications have been down while they were in swing space for 3 years. THey've also had interim heads of school for 3 years, which isn't ideal.

I would imagine the building will spur new interest now -- especially as SWW gets more competitive and Wilson gets more crowded. And there is now permanent leadership in place.

Perhaps, but then Ellington will have to enhance its academic quality. It may be good in arts, but no way is comparable academically to SWW or even Wilson.

If the student body at SWW or the "yale" contingent at Wilson enrolled at Ellington, it would be fine. The cohort dictates the quality.

If true, then it's a good reason for Ellington to stop admitting poorly academically-prepared kids from the PG schools!

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Anonymous wrote:I recall reading once that Ellington wasn't chartered for the students in DC. It was formed to provide an arts education principally to students of color. That's its mission and culture. So that would mean that kids from PG might have a stronger moral right to an Ellington education than snowflakes from Ward 3.

Can you please substantiate this. Sounds like reverse racism and classism (I'm assuming by snowflake you mean rich kids - who are also entitled to a free and public education).

No need to waste anyone's time trying to substantiate this bs as it isn't true now (and not sure if it ever was).

Ellington parent here:

Ellington's mission and how it operates is governed by a detailed MOU with DCPS.

Regarding recruitment, Ellington has a full-time person who recruits year-round at all the DC middle and charter schools. They are at every high school fair, DCEdFest and many other places. This past year there were almost 700 applications for about 190 offers.

Regarding APs and academic challenge, I would say that it's mostly fine. There are honors courses in 9th grade and APs starting in 10th (with the occasional gifted kid starting earlier). The "rigor" varies from teacher to teacher, course to course. Personally I don't want my kid to have a ton of homework-- she's already in school from 8:30 to 5:00 pm. Many Ellington students stay much later for rehearsals. They each take 10 classes, six academic and four art courses. It's a lot and kids can become very stressed. If a particular student wanted to, he or she could load up on foreign languages, extra science, advanced math and APs and it would be as heavy a course-load as anywhere. And of course as a senior a student can also take classes at a local university through a couple of DCPS-wide programs for which the student would have to apply.

Who is the idiot in the D.C. government who agreed to an MOU that gives DCPS no governance rights and Ellington's Board no accountability to the taxpayers? It privatizes governance and socializes cost.

I think it was signed in 2000 by Mayor Williams.

Wasn't Ellington founded in the Seventies when Mayor Crack was in charge?

The most recent MOU was signed in 2000.

The school was founded in 1974; Walter Washington was DC's first elected mayor -- his term began in 1975 (Barry succeeded him).

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Anonymous wrote:I recall reading once that Ellington wasn't chartered for the students in DC. It was formed to provide an arts education principally to students of color. That's its mission and culture. So that would mean that kids from PG might have a stronger moral right to an Ellington education than snowflakes from Ward 3.

Can you please substantiate this. Sounds like reverse racism and classism (I'm assuming by snowflake you mean rich kids - who are also entitled to a free and public education).

No need to waste anyone's time trying to substantiate this bs as it isn't true now (and not sure if it ever was).

Ellington parent here:

Ellington's mission and how it operates is governed by a detailed MOU with DCPS.

Regarding recruitment, Ellington has a full-time person who recruits year-round at all the DC middle and charter schools. They are at every high school fair, DCEdFest and many other places. This past year there were almost 700 applications for about 190 offers.

Regarding APs and academic challenge, I would say that it's mostly fine. There are honors courses in 9th grade and APs starting in 10th (with the occasional gifted kid starting earlier). The "rigor" varies from teacher to teacher, course to course. Personally I don't want my kid to have a ton of homework-- she's already in school from 8:30 to 5:00 pm. Many Ellington students stay much later for rehearsals. They each take 10 classes, six academic and four art courses. It's a lot and kids can become very stressed. If a particular student wanted to, he or she could load up on foreign languages, extra science, advanced math and APs and it would be as heavy a course-load as anywhere. And of course as a senior a student can also take classes at a local university through a couple of DCPS-wide programs for which the student would have to apply.

Who is the idiot in the D.C. government who agreed to an MOU that gives DCPS no governance rights and Ellington's Board no accountability to the taxpayers? It privatizes governance and socializes cost.

I think it was signed in 2000 by Mayor Williams.

Wasn't Ellington founded in the Seventies when Mayor Crack was in charge?

Yawn. Our president is a coke head. Why must we always revert back to Barry?

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Anonymous wrote:I recall reading once that Ellington wasn't chartered for the students in DC. It was formed to provide an arts education principally to students of color. That's its mission and culture. So that would mean that kids from PG might have a stronger moral right to an Ellington education than snowflakes from Ward 3.

Can you please substantiate this. Sounds like reverse racism and classism (I'm assuming by snowflake you mean rich kids - who are also entitled to a free and public education).

No need to waste anyone's time trying to substantiate this bs as it isn't true now (and not sure if it ever was).

Ellington parent here:

Ellington's mission and how it operates is governed by a detailed MOU with DCPS.

Regarding recruitment, Ellington has a full-time person who recruits year-round at all the DC middle and charter schools. They are at every high school fair, DCEdFest and many other places. This past year there were almost 700 applications for about 190 offers.

Regarding APs and academic challenge, I would say that it's mostly fine. There are honors courses in 9th grade and APs starting in 10th (with the occasional gifted kid starting earlier). The "rigor" varies from teacher to teacher, course to course. Personally I don't want my kid to have a ton of homework-- she's already in school from 8:30 to 5:00 pm. Many Ellington students stay much later for rehearsals. They each take 10 classes, six academic and four art courses. It's a lot and kids can become very stressed. If a particular student wanted to, he or she could load up on foreign languages, extra science, advanced math and APs and it would be as heavy a course-load as anywhere. And of course as a senior a student can also take classes at a local university through a couple of DCPS-wide programs for which the student would have to apply.

Who is the idiot in the D.C. government who agreed to an MOU that gives DCPS no governance rights and Ellington's Board no accountability to the taxpayers? It privatizes governance and socializes cost.

I think it was signed in 2000 by Mayor Williams.

Wasn't Ellington founded in the Seventies when Mayor Crack was in charge?

Yawn. Our president is a coke head. Why must we always revert back to Bar-ry?

Both coke or crack heads and both racist demagogue, too. At least we're finally rid of one of them.

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Now that DC taxpayers have invested about $200 Million into Ellington, time to put it under DC control as a school for DC kids. And frankly, I think every spot should be filled with a DC kid. My sister auditioned for Ellington in the 80s (and got in). However, auditions are incredibly subjective and talent can be developed. I find it difficult to believe that we don't have enough artistically inclined students in all of DC to fill Ellington's seats.

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Anonymous wrote:Now that DC taxpayers have invested about $200 Million into Ellington, time to put it under DC control as a school for DC kids. And frankly, I think every spot should be filled with a DC kid. My sister auditioned for Ellington in the 80s (and got in). However, auditions are incredibly subjective and talent can be developed. I find it difficult to believe that we don't have enough artistically inclined students in all of DC to fill Ellington's seats.

Be careful what you wish for.

Putting it under 'DCPS control' would mean loss of involvement of the Kennedy Center and the private fund that support all the arts classes. Is DCPS prepared to up the annual per pupil funding just for Ellington to make up the difference? Ellington kids carry 10 classes per year.

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Anonymous wrote:Now that DC taxpayers have invested about $200 Million into Ellington, time to put it under DC control as a school for DC kids. And frankly, I think every spot should be filled with a DC kid. My sister auditioned for Ellington in the 80s (and got in). However, auditions are incredibly subjective and talent can be developed. I find it difficult to believe that we don't have enough artistically inclined students in all of DC to fill Ellington's seats.

For Museum Studies, Theatre Tech, Visual Arts, Vocal, etc., yes you can fill almost all the seats with DC kids. They are looking for raw talent and drive (as it presents in an auditioning 8th grader-- the kids don't have to be crazy-committed 14 year olds). But for the instrumental department in particular, you need certain instruments to round out the orchestra/ensembles. Hardy used to be a great feeder but it's no longer an arts-centered school. Jefferson Junior High (as it was known) also had a very good instrumental program, but not any more. Most other DC middle schools don't have good instrumental programs. I hope this is changing so that the middle schools develop excellent arts programs which then can feed Ellington and fill all of the seats.

In the meantime, there's a process for out of state tuition-paying students run by OSSE, and which is capped for Ellington at 10% of its students.

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Anonymous wrote:Now that DC taxpayers have invested about $200 Million into Ellington, time to put it under DC control as a school for DC kids. And frankly, I think every spot should be filled with a DC kid. My sister auditioned for Ellington in the 80s (and got in). However, auditions are incredibly subjective and talent can be developed. I find it difficult to believe that we don't have enough artistically inclined students in all of DC to fill Ellington's seats.

Be careful what you wish for.

Putting it under 'DCPS control' would mean loss of involvement of the Kennedy Center and the private fund that support all the arts classes. Is DCPS prepared to up the annual per pupil funding just for Ellington to make up the difference? Ellington kids carry 10 classes per year.

DC pays about 90% of Ellington's operating costs and 100% (with the recent cost overruns, more like 250%!) of its capital expenditures. Ellington doesn't have to be managed as a traditional DCPS school, anymore than SWW is (which has a partnership with GW University). However, at a minimum, the DC government (which is theoretically accountable to the voters and taxpayers) should have the right to appoint a majority of Ellington's board. Currently, it has ZERO designated board seats.

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Anonymous wrote:Very. There's an audition, exam, and family interview.

So why, with the latest $200 million subsidy from D.C. Taxpayers, does Ellington take kids from Maryland while it turns away kids from Washington?!

Go to an open house and ask.

Why don't you tell us taxpayers. We'd love to know why we're subsidizing MoCo and PG kids when DC kids are being rejected. How is educating Maryland students part of Ellington's mission?

If no bass players from DC apply, and a talented bass player from Silver Spring wants to pay tuition and attend, why not?

So you're telling us that zero D.C. kids are turned away in favor of MD kids?

No, simply that it's not as simple as you make it out to be. A DC kid who has no talent, or an empty slot, will go to an out of state kid. They decide yes/no on all the DC kids before they consider any from out of state.

In addition, the percentage of tuition paying students is capped at 10%. The out of state enrollment is below that limit now (42 out of 575).

But instead of essentially having 10 percent of sears thst are officially for out of district students (ignoring the fraudsers), why doesn't Ellington do more outreach to recruit a greater number of talented D.C. Kids?

They are in every high school, they are at Ed Fest, they recruit at DCYO, and community based arts group.

Applications have been down while they were in swing space for 3 years. THey've also had interim heads of school for 3 years, which isn't ideal.

I would imagine the building will spur new interest now -- especially as SWW gets more competitive and Wilson gets more crowded. And there is now permanent leadership in place.

Perhaps, but then Ellington will have to enhance its academic quality. It may be good in arts, but no way is comparable academically to SWW or even Wilson.

If the student body at SWW or the "yale" contingent at Wilson enrolled at Ellington, it would be fine. The cohort dictates the quality.

If true, then it's a good reason for Ellington to stop admitting poorly academically-prepared kids from the PG schools!

This. I'm tired of Maryland residents and their kids taking advantage of DC taxpayers.

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Anonymous wrote:Very. There's an audition, exam, and family interview.

So why, with the latest $200 million subsidy from D.C. Taxpayers, does Ellington take kids from Maryland while it turns away kids from Washington?!

Go to an open house and ask.

Why don't you tell us taxpayers. We'd love to know why we're subsidizing MoCo and PG kids when DC kids are being rejected. How is educating Maryland students part of Ellington's mission?

If no bass players from DC apply, and a talented bass player from Silver Spring wants to pay tuition and attend, why not?

So you're telling us that zero D.C. kids are turned away in favor of MD kids?

No, simply that it's not as simple as you make it out to be. A DC kid who has no talent, or an empty slot, will go to an out of state kid. They decide yes/no on all the DC kids before they consider any from out of state.

In addition, the percentage of tuition paying students is capped at 10%. The out of state enrollment is below that limit now (42 out of 575).

But instead of essentially having 10 percent of sears thst are officially for out of district students (ignoring the fraudsers), why doesn't Ellington do more outreach to recruit a greater number of talented D.C. Kids?

They are in every high school, they are at Ed Fest, they recruit at DCYO, and community based arts group.

Applications have been down while they were in swing space for 3 years. THey've also had interim heads of school for 3 years, which isn't ideal.

I would imagine the building will spur new interest now -- especially as SWW gets more competitive and Wilson gets more crowded. And there is now permanent leadership in place.

Perhaps, but then Ellington will have to enhance its academic quality. It may be good in arts, but no way is comparable academically to SWW or even Wilson.

If the student body at SWW or the "yale" contingent at Wilson enrolled at Ellington, it would be fine. The cohort dictates the quality.

If true, then it's a good reason for Ellington to stop admitting poorly academically-prepared kids from the PG schools!

This. I'm tired of Maryland residents and their kids taking advantage of DC taxpayers.

Does anyone know what out of state kids pay to attend Ellington?

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Anonymous wrote:Very. There's an audition, exam, and family interview.

So why, with the latest $200 million subsidy from D.C. Taxpayers, does Ellington take kids from Maryland while it turns away kids from Washington?!

Go to an open house and ask.

Why don't you tell us taxpayers. We'd love to know why we're subsidizing MoCo and PG kids when DC kids are being rejected. How is educating Maryland students part of Ellington's mission?

If no bass players from DC apply, and a talented bass player from Silver Spring wants to pay tuition and attend, why not?

So you're telling us that zero D.C. kids are turned away in favor of MD kids?

No, simply that it's not as simple as you make it out to be. A DC kid who has no talent, or an empty slot, will go to an out of state kid. They decide yes/no on all the DC kids before they consider any from out of state.

In addition, the percentage of tuition paying students is capped at 10%. The out of state enrollment is below that limit now (42 out of 575).

But instead of essentially having 10 percent of sears thst are officially for out of district students (ignoring the fraudsers), why doesn't Ellington do more outreach to recruit a greater number of talented D.C. Kids?

They are in every high school, they are at Ed Fest, they recruit at DCYO, and community based arts group.

Applications have been down while they were in swing space for 3 years. THey've also had interim heads of school for 3 years, which isn't ideal.

I would imagine the building will spur new interest now -- especially as SWW gets more competitive and Wilson gets more crowded. And there is now permanent leadership in place.

Perhaps, but then Ellington will have to enhance its academic quality. It may be good in arts, but no way is comparable academically to SWW or even Wilson.

If the student body at SWW or the "yale" contingent at Wilson enrolled at Ellington, it would be fine. The cohort dictates the quality.

If true, then it's a good reason for Ellington to stop admitting poorly academically-prepared kids from the PG schools!

This. I'm tired of Maryland residents and their kids taking advantage of DC taxpayers.

Does anyone know what out of state kids pay to attend Ellington?

For 2016-17 it was $11,812 -- the same as it costs an out of state student to attend SWW, Banneker and BASIS (the other DC high schools with 1 or more out of state students).

The money is payable to OSSE in a lump sum, or in monthly installments paid by credit card. A student cannot attend classes until OSSE has the funds or the credit card and payment plan in place.

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2016-17%20School%20Year%20Enrollment%20Audit%20Report_0.pdf (see page 36)

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Anonymous wrote:Now that DC taxpayers have invested about $200 Million into Ellington, time to put it under DC control as a school for DC kids. And frankly, I think every spot should be filled with a DC kid. My sister auditioned for Ellington in the 80s (and got in). However, auditions are incredibly subjective and talent can be developed. I find it difficult to believe that we don't have enough artistically inclined students in all of DC to fill Ellington's seats.

For Museum Studies, Theatre Tech, Visual Arts, Vocal, etc., yes you can fill almost all the seats with DC kids. They are looking for raw talent and drive (as it presents in an auditioning 8th grader-- the kids don't have to be crazy-committed 14 year olds). But for the instrumental department in particular, you need certain instruments to round out the orchestra/ensembles. Hardy used to be a great feeder but it's no longer an arts-centered school. Jefferson Junior High (as it was known) also had a very good instrumental program, but not any more. Most other DC middle schools don't have good instrumental programs. I hope this is changing so that the middle schools develop excellent arts programs which then can feed Ellington and fill all of the seats.

In the meantime, there's a process for out of state tuition-paying students run by OSSE, and which is capped for Ellington at 10% of its students.

Wow -- It appears that Ellington then is in violation of OSSE's policy on out of state tuition paying students, if there are more DC-resident students who want to enroll there than are spots made available to them.

OSSE's policy provides that out of state students "must pay tuition after meeting established criteria. In addition, in order to be accepted/admitted as a non-resident, schools should not have any residents on its waiting list."

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Anonymous wrote:Now that DC taxpayers have invested about $200 Million into Ellington, time to put it under DC control as a school for DC kids. And frankly, I think every spot should be filled with a DC kid. My sister auditioned for Ellington in the 80s (and got in). However, auditions are incredibly subjective and talent can be developed. I find it difficult to believe that we don't have enough artistically inclined students in all of DC to fill Ellington's seats.

For Museum Studies, Theatre Tech, Visual Arts, Vocal, etc., yes you can fill almost all the seats with DC kids. They are looking for raw talent and drive (as it presents in an auditioning 8th grader-- the kids don't have to be crazy-committed 14 year olds). But for the instrumental department in particular, you need certain instruments to round out the orchestra/ensembles. Hardy used to be a great feeder but it's no longer an arts-centered school. Jefferson Junior High (as it was known) also had a very good instrumental program, but not any more. Most other DC middle schools don't have good instrumental programs. I hope this is changing so that the middle schools develop excellent arts programs which then can feed Ellington and fill all of the seats.

In the meantime, there's a process for out of state tuition-paying students run by OSSE, and which is capped for Ellington at 10% of its students.

Wow -- It appears that Ellington then is in violation of OSSE's policy on out of state tuition paying students, if there are more DC-resident students who want to enroll there than are spots made available to them.

OSSE's policy provides that out of state students "must pay tuition after meeting established criteria. In addition, in order to be accepted/admitted as a non-resident, schools should not have any residents on its waiting list."

Deal and SWW are also out of compliance. Both have tuition paying students and students on a waitlist.