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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS has had the schedule of renovations planned out for about 10 years.  There's no lack of transparency, so you don't have to make any suppositions - I'm sure Google will tell you all you need to know.[/quote]

What's not at all clear is that 10 years ago there was much thought given to the future needs of DCPS, I think they just made a list of run-down schools and then drew up a schedule for fixing all of them. Which, in fairness was a huge task, considering that DCPS had just come off of a 40 year period of total disinvestment.

The problem DCPS has is that it has a tremendous mismatch between the schools it has and the schools that people want to attend. Overall DCPS has about 60% more school space than it needs, but about 10% of the schools are overcrowded. So we get the situation where on the one hand hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on schools that are severely underutilized, and won't have the school population to justify that investment in the foreseeable future, and on the other hand hundreds of millions of dollars are spend on renovating schools that are over capacity the day they open.[/quote]

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