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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wasn't Shepherd supposed to be a phased modernization? I ask this by way of explanation, not as a criticism of the Shepherd community. Most of the phased modernizations had the planned phases spread out over decades. Shepherd seems to have managed to get funding for their phases pushed closely together so that the process mimics a full modernization. Shepherd isn't the only school that was treated that way, but that pushing together of phases at some schools bumped back other schools that were waiting for phase 1 modernizations. Meanwhile, schools that were not successful in getting their phases pushed together were frustrated that some schools seemed to be more politically favored and were able to be fully modernized over the course of several years instead of a decade or more.

I understand the community's frustration at not getting their school fully modernized, but I just don't see the Shepherd situation as any different from the fates of other phased schools that are waiting for the remainder of their phases. [/quote]
The process has changed so much since it started it is really difficult to trace how the phases were supposed to be executed.

If your funding is scheduled for FY19 or FY22 or whatever, you can live with that. FYNEVER, not so much.

First we waited while a bunch of schools sucked up the capital budget. Then our students and teachers lived through 3 years of bad project management from DGS, including losing a summer of work because someone forgot to pull permits. Oops.  Now, 2/3rds of the way through, we're told, that's enough for you, go to the back of the line. Only half joking here, but Janney will get another renovation before Shepherd is completed.

Rumors indicate that this has more to do with the Mayor's Shelter plan vis-a-vis Todd's votes than it does with the schools anyway.[/quote]

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