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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone know where citizens can put in their two cents to say "no", a petition or something? DCPS needs more of these buildings, not less.[/quote]

Sigh. It's an extension on an existing lease made for 12 years in 2008. Protest all you want, but it's pretty doubtful the city would try to break a lease to completely rebuild a new elementary school when it's being sued for closing other elementary schools. Mary Cheh wants the space fore a DCPS middle school or charter(?). But until Deal loses all it's OOB students and Hardy has more than 20% in-boundary students, it would not be wise to hold one's breath for the conversion of a small, private, special education school building with about 100 students to a 400 student (the limit for a "small" school) elementary or even larger middle DCPS school on Foxhall Road. As it is, the battle for parking and drop off between Lab, GDS, and locals is sometimes a mess.

Seriously expanding and upgrading Key and filling Hardy with locals are better uses of DCPS resources in the next 5-10 years IMHO as ward 3 school parent. Is DCPS really willing and able to fight a traffic war on Foxhall to get land without an adequate building to be completely rebuilt based on the assumption that young, wealthy families will be willing to send their kids to a new public school in 2024 at the earliest?

If Georgetown University could set up a high-performing charter middle school on that location like Howard University did near its campus, then that might be a good investment of public funds.

In the meantime, I see no reason to keep taking money from Lab School and have them deal with the traffic headaches.[/quote]

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