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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]... On your point about how an ongoing renovation affects school rankings, I can see both sides of that issue.  On one hand, if you're at Shepherd, I can understand you're frustrated that you might get only 90% of the renovation someone promised you several years ago.  On the other hand, if you're at another school that's never had a renovation at all and is rated as being in poor condition, you'd be pretty pissed to hear that you're not getting money because it's all flowing to some long-ago promised renovation (which itself was perhaps part of a political backscratching deal!) at [b]a school in a wealthy part of Ward 4[/b] that's already got facilities rated as "good."  The short answer is that there's never enough money to do everything people want, so there needs to be a system to allocate it fairly.  [/quote]

This part of the argument misses the mark.  Shepherd is only about 1/3 in-boundary, and children attend from all 8 wards.  It is also 34% FARMS.  Nineteen percent of its students are considered "at-risk" by DCPS (students who are in foster care or homeless, or who are receiving welfare benefits or food stamps).   Although Grosso seems to want to suggest otherwise with his comments about those with the "loudest voices" getting funding, the Shepherd Elementary community is not as uniformly wealthy or politically powerful as implied.[/quote]

I'm sure someone knows better, but Shepherd Park and Colonial Village seem pretty wealthy and politically connected compared to other parts of Ward 4 like Brightwood, Manor Park, and Petworth.

Also, take a look at the other schools at the top of on the Education Committee's spreadsheet.  Most of them at 70% or more at-risk.  I get that Shepherd wants its money, but it's hard to deny other schools need it more.  Shepherd's got it pretty good by comparison.[/quote]

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