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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years of scandals means that DCPS wants to take over.  [/quote]

Yes, the made-up residency fraud scandal and a sexual misconduct scandal mishandled by a previous administration and the police means DCPS should obviously take over. By all means take one of the few high schools in the city that has a nearly 100% graduation and college acceptance rate and let DCPS screw around with it.

The DCPS "takeover" has been walked back quite a bit. At this point, from what I understand, DCPS and Ellington have mostly worked out an agreement about alternative certification for arts teachers who do not have an education degree. I believe they have agreed that the principal will stay on as DESAP principal, which is overseeing both the DCPS and arts side of things. There are a few sticking points, however. Most importantly, teacher and administrative pay. Teachers at Ellington took a pay cut a few years ago when DCPS cut the budget.[/quote]

It wasn't made up. It wasn't as many students as was originally announced, but in the end there was some undisputed fraud. Look at this very slanted article from Jay Mathews- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/duke-ellington-school-funding/2021/01/30/8c718d66-618d-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html  164 students were accused. 87% were cleared. That means that 13% were not cleared, or 21 students. 21 students times $15,000 a year (just a guess) is $315,000 in fraud for JUST ONE YEAR. Yes, it's real and it matters.

As for the graduation rate and college acceptance, wowie wowie wow that a school that hand-picks its students has acceptable academic results. Color me impressed. You know as well as I do that Ellington's academics are actually pretty meh, they're just better than other nearby schools.  And I certainly don't understand why these acceptable "results" could justify hundreds of thousands of dollars in residency fraud.[/quote]

NP what in the world did Duke Ellington do to hurt you? You seem to have a lot of misplaced anger at a school. Throwing out 315k as "fraud" does nothing to impress me either. [/quote]

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