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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has the DC auditor weighed in on this?[/quote]

You'd like to think that all the government levers in place to deal with a situation like this would have been pulled by about now. I sense that most just want this to go away. It's up to people who believe this contract was bogus to keep up making noise. [/quote]

It's pretty clear that the decision on Jelleff came from the very top - aka The Mayor's office. This is why Delano was so evasive - he had "internal conversations" with his boss (Muriel) before coming to a decision.

Bowser has a lot of campaign contributors at Maret. In addition, a lot of wealthy African-American families go to Maret as it's one of the more diverse and supposedly "progressive" independent schools in the DC area. This is Bowser's social circle calling in a favor at the expense of poor black kids who would utilize Jelleff through the BGC or Hardy athletics.

This is all about the African-American elites of DC putting their foot down on the necks of poorer African-Americans who are in DC Public/Charter Schools. That's the subtext of the entire fight but no one is willing to discuss. This has been a recurring battle in DC for generations. [/quote]

This is exactly it. Excellent summary.[/quote]

Agreed. Old Hardy / LAB School is another case of this. Whether anything more comes of this will, I guess, depend on a critical mass of the DC Council. Elissa has made it her issue and Mary Cheh and Robert White don't like it either. Trayon seems very much on the fence, though, and I doubt three is enough.[/quote]

Agree and agree. [/quote]

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