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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rumors have been flying round that the reason the Mayor is digging in her heels is that she wants to give Banneker to a developer. That's the only explanation that makes sense given this development. [/quote]

She can't "give" Banneker to a developer. First it has to designated as excess by DCPS. Then it has to be offered to charters. Then if they don't want it, there would be an RFP disposition process, and the Council has to approve the final disposition. The mayor has some political power over parts of those processes, but by no means absolute power.[/quote]

That's not what's happening with Old Hardy. If the Council passes a bill they can do it however they want. The Mayor just needs seven votes on the Council. [/quote]

Hardy was excessed years ago. And with a current user of the school there is no need for an RFP. No dog in the fight, its just a different fact pattern.

Counting to seven is indeed the key, as I think John A. Wilson (who the Wilson Building is named after) used to say. But it isn't exactly an easy thing to do if you don't have many natural allies on the Council, which this Mayor does not have anymore.[/quote]

She has a few natural allies.  Maybe 5?  Not 7.[/quote]

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