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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can people help me compile a list of laws which the DC council broke to get this done? Im not sure what is a rule vs a law:

1) the appraisal etc needed for dcps  to declare the building surplus
2) the demographic evidence dcps needed to prove they dont need the site
3) charters get first look on surplus buildings
4) dcps must charge market rates
5) Conflict of interest laws

Anything else?

Here and on the palisades list serve, lab parents have characterized all opposition as an attack on their kids, which is unfair and blatantly misleading.

We have laws for a reason.  If you think the law shouldnt apply to a situation, you work to change law, not simply ignore it.[/quote]

I forgot 
6) open meetings/comment laws[/quote]

If you're so Gung Ho on suing the city, why not start with DCPS and its continuing failure to educate students with disabilities? If DCPS could do its job, Lab School wouldn't need to exist.  DCPS is in serious violation of federal laws on special education.  Catania was the only one who took it seriously. He supported the lease, too. This isn't something Grosso invented.

Bottom line, many people who live near the building don't want anything bigger there than a small building with little kids (no icky middle schoolers) school and minimal traffic. DCPS cannot gurantee an enrolment cap. Charter schools can, but that hinders their funding. That location would never be approved for a charter serving low-income, at-risk students anyway.

So what exactly are you hoping to achieve on the backs of kids with disabilities?

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Oh, does Lab school take every DC child with needs? I think not. And it takes bunches from other states which I'm fine with until it somehow becomes DCs responsibility to subsidize. Try again.[/quote]

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