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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ellington has 2 parts to its overpriced building. The academic part is used for 1/2 the day, then the arts part for the other half. Right now it is academics in the first half, arts through the evening.

If the schedule were reversed to be arts first, then the academic building could be used by regular HS students for half the day, and Ellington students the othe half.

It is crazy that this expensive building lies unused for so much of the day. Lets put a small academic or other magnet there too to better serve DC students.[/quote]

The school capacity is 600 students. There are 570 there now.

The Ellington school day is 9 hours long. [b]Arts don’t start until 245 and go until 545[/b].

It is not underutilized. Go for a tour and confirm for yourself. [/quote]

Then DCPS can close Fillmore and use the arts side of Ellington for elementary arts classes before 2:45. Change Fillmore to an arts-focused elementary without a boundary, or use it for self-contained special ed classes since there are relatively few WOTP, or offer PK there, or some of each.[/quote]

This makes some sense. Fillmore does do some non- school programming. They could pay rent to use Fillmore during off hours. [/quote]

I'm not sure you understand what "Fillmore" is. "Fillmore" -- the arts education program utilized by three massively overcrowded elementary schools -- is housed at Hardy MS on the 6th grade floor (the grade for which there is now a waiting list). The building named "Fillmore" next to Hardy MS is the old Fillmore School which GWU owned at one point and sold a few years ago to the arts philanthropy S&R Foundation. It has nothing to do with DCPS at all.

Anyway - totally agree that the schools utilizing the Fillmore Arts Center at Hardy have access to DESA for their weekly half-day of studio and performing arts instruction. These schools have no room whatsoever for arts instruction, or even "art on a cart" as closet storage space has been taken over by teaching and guidance personnel.[/quote]

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