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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh...check out the $$ spent per sq ft on all of those schools and see how Deal stacks up...where to get it, contact the 21st Century School Fund, they were there 20 years ago and they are there now fighting for equity.[/quote]

Data from 21 Century
Per pupil budgeting from lowest to highest:

Ward 5 received more school construction funds -- $152 million -- than any other ward in 2008 and 2009.  Ward 8 was second at $117 million.  See this link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/05/AR2010060503976.html
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PP, thanks, this was the misleading Post article that I remembered but couldn't find.  Here is what the story says on Ward 5:

[i]In Ward 5, school construction spending has been overshadowed by the city's decision to close six schools as part of a consolidation plan.[b] Most of the money paid for the $62 million renovation of Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School, [/b]which was closed in 2002 but reopened in 2008 as a model of a new vocational education. No schools were closed in Ward 3, and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has said closings were based on several factors, including utilization and academic performance.

But Jacqueline Manning, a Ward 5 Advisory Neighborhood Commission member, said the city does not appear to have a plan for the ward, which added the vacant school buildings to its long list of abandoned industrial plants -- a reminder of the lack of development that critics say has been delivered faster to other parts of the city. "You should leave one ward, go to another and it should look the same," said Manning, who added that each ward deserves similar access to amenities, schools and other facilities. 
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Like I said upthread most of the school money spent in Ward 5 was for two city-wide magnet schools, not neighborhood schools. That money will not benefit my kid at all at the elementary level -- and not at the high school level unless he wants that kind of school.  We got the shaft -- the article is extremely misleading. [/quote]

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