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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has the highest taxes in the country and we spend more on schools per capita than anywhere else. If some schools aren't getting their share, it's the politicians' fault. [/quote]

We don't have the highest taxes but close.

What we probably have is one of the most inefficient and corrupt local governments, and a massive waste of taxpayer $$$.[/quote]

+1000.  More money is not the main issue. Local govt. including most of its agencies are incredibly inefficient and corrupt. There have been a few posts on this thread even giving examples of how DCPS wastes money but no one seems to care about that. Just a strange fixation on how more money would fix the schools[/quote]

Absolutely yes, Taj Mahal renovations of multiple DCPS middle and high schools that sit half empty as families bolt to bare-bones charter offering real rigor and discipline.  Think Dunbar ($125 million), Jefferson Academy ($40 million), Eliot-Hine ($30 million).  Then there are the gleaming buildings full of low SES OOB students, e.g. Stuart Hobson, 80% OOB for decades, nothing changed after a $40 million renovation five years ago. 
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Poor kids deserve to go to safe, renovated schools just as much as umc kids, if you are asserting otherwise. I am not sure why you thought a renovation would affect test scores at all. SH is making strides[/quote]

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