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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then put up recent ones, are they any different?[/quote]

If only I could.

That isn't publicly available data - perhaps it should be. The person who shared it earlier in the week said they got it via a private communication from some elected official. 
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So why does a public school not have any publicly available data?  So are at least half the students at grade level in English and math in high school?  Even if they have talent, it'll be helpful if they can read and write and do math.[/quote]

Ellington is a hybrid.  They're public when they want to be --namely to suck at the public teat which funds and funds 100% their renovation cost overruns and pays 85% of Ellington's operating budget.  But when it comes to transparency, they claim they're a private institution.  While that's a specious claim, Ellington even fails to recognize that transparency and good governance have swept the private institutional environment in the past 10-15 years.[/quote]

What I don't get is, why does the city enable this? As the main source of funds, they could and should demand accountability tomorrow. Or close the tap.[/quote]

Political power?  It seems that those in control of Ellington have significant sway over those in charge of the city.[/quote]

I wonder if Ellington patron (matron?) Peggy Cooper Cafritz's famous art collection includes compromising photos of a number of DC politicians.   :lol: [/quote]

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