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Anonymous
| is latin aiming to stay at its present 16th street location? does anyone know if they are eying any other properties for long term? |
Anonymous
| eying other poperties; know any? Or any benefactors with deep pockets? Won't get any properties from this Mayor unfortunately... |
Anonymous
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No kidding. It's a total myth that charter schools are allowed access to shuttered DCPS facilities.
Would LOVE to the council nail him to the wall on this item... |
Anonymous
| The original headmaster / founder tried to move the school to Penn Quarter after the 1st year. Not sure if this idea dies with his departure. |
Anonymous
| The move was not approved by the Charter School Board due to the relative youth of the school at the time; the idea would still be to locate somewhere central to children from DC's 4 quadrants. A move is not imminent, but it is being eyed. And if you are a friend of access to education in this city, yes, nail Fenty to the wall for providing such a real estate inhospitable environment for charters. All charters are doing is providing another pathway for our kids, and they are held accountable--the Board is tough!! |
Anonymous
| DC is closing some schools, but not giving many of them to charters. Some are becoming DMVs, others are going for other public services. But the charters aren't getting any breaks. |
Anonymous
| The ones that are metro-accessible, centrally-located, or in any way useful are not being released to charters. These are only being sold to developers. Officially the reason is that the district needs the money that commercial development can bring in. Unofficially, Fenty wants to strangle any charters that he possibly can because his administration is SO unpopular vis-a-vis education that DCPS can't survive without trying to strangle the life out of children in public charter schools. |
Anonymous
| Yup. Go Fenty. Yay. Friend of children. Not. |
Anonymous
| Which means that schools like Latin are forced to look at commercial space. A lot of it would require modifications to meet school building codes, which can be extremely expensive. I'm aware of a few centrally-located, metro-accessible buildings that Latin looked at but ruled out. |
Anonymous
This is pretty convoluted logic. |
Anonymous
| I think it is pretty voluted, or whatever the opposite of convoluted is. |
Anonymous
You must not know much about charter schools because it's pretty well known that the Fenty administration is doing everything it can not to let charters have access to shuttered facilities. That's why the council passed legislation to try to force DCPS to offer their shuttered facilities to charters first. It's pretty well known that developers like getting their hands on historic facilities because they're some of the most authentic historic buildings to convert into lofts. Witness the loft project in the Bryan school loft project AND Pierce school loft projects on Capitol Hill. As long as the charters are allowed to have buildings then they will continue to attract students away from DCPS and that makes it harder for Fenty and Rhee to claim that they're turning the system around. |
Anonymous
| Charters are already winning the enrollment sweepstakes, converted building notwithstanding. |
Anonymous
All the more reason for the administration to hand over the shuttered facilities. They belong to school children, not Fenty's re-election campaign. |
Anonymous
| How do we leverage this feeling? Feel so powerless in the face of Fenty and his developer supporters (especially since it is coming out how cozy they all are). |