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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like a situation where the relevant legal provisions should be changed for transparency's sake.  There is a need for discretion in systems like this.  Though it fits with the "who you know gets you what you need" thing that just always, always seems to recur here in DC local politics.

Just a few ideas:
* Any exercise of discretion must be followed with a simultaneous letter to the Education Committee Chair and the Committee of the Whole Chair. No exercise of the discretion is legal without such a written letter.
* The letter is to include findings on points constituents care about: a rational basis for the exercise of discretion that lays out sufficient facts to support such a decision; that the exercise of discretion is not due to relationship to an elected official or donor (familial or not); the exercise of discretion is on a basis that could be available to any DC resident; and identify any person(s) who requested the discretion or offered support therefor, etc.
* each year as part of budget submission any such transfers are to be enumerated and dated by DCPS.

Obviously, you could ask for more, but there's a fair way to make sure that this is not just one more way the "haves" get one over on the "have nots."
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