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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To address the OP's question, the National Park Service and Historic Preservation are not what is holding up the Murch renovation. They do make the project more complicated and may make it more expensive. But what is holding up the project is DC. District leaders have not committed the money, effort, or political will necessary to renovate the school. The specific challenges of the project are just one of the many excuses DC has used to drag its feet in modernizing the school despite the major need.[/quote]

Thank you for answering my question.  I suspected as much.  It doesn't look like my child will benefit from any renovation, but I hope that the city realizes how dire the need is.  [/quote]

The parent association needs to get Cheh and Bowser over to the school, march them around and between the trailers and not let them be until they commit to specific funding and a timetable to complete the project.[/quote]

I completely agree, although I suspect they are already quite knowledgeable about the problems at Murch.  [/quote]

What's demoralizing is that the Murch HSA and renovation committee did EXACTLY this last spring. Brought pretty much every council member who would come--including Bowser, Catania, Cheh, Grosso--and every single one of them committed support for the  project. And we got more budget and planning action because of it. Which got us...here.

So now I guess it has to happen all over again--and everyone should hold Mary Cheh's feet to the fire. She is completely feckless, in my opinion--it's time to make her really pay attention. I once listened to her whine to a friend about how much the Post hates her after she endorsed Gray over  Fenty--it really got under her skin. Someone should contact the Post's education reporter and pitch a story to them about how the most diverse school in Ward 3 with the second most OOB students can't get a renovation.

Might also be worth getting Elissa Silverman involved, since she's at-large. She's big on accountablity.[/quote]

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