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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So basically DC taxpayers are paying through the nose to build a Taj Mahal in a non-central location, with sub-par academics for a lot of Maryland students -- and with limited transparency and zero governance accountability?! This is so messed up on so many levels.[/quote]

beautifully succinct.

I'll add 3 irrebuttable words:

1. Peggy
2. cooper
3. cafritz[/quote]

Who's that lady?[/quote]

Google her. She is a black woman with an activist past who married an extremely wealthy guy named cafritz, scion of a local real estate dynasty. Together they did a lot of philanthropy which she continued after his death. DE is her baby, she started it as a non profit in her activist days in a temporary space, similar to Sitar if you're familiar. It grew and at some point she somehow convinced DC to take it on and incorporate it into DCPS.

Spend some time on google, it's quite a story. When people in this thread are talking about political influence (for good or ill), she would be the main focus of attention. 
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Thank you, had no idea. She should have opened a charter school, not suck DCPS resources. But, yes, I get the point about political influence. This is the kind of deal that Trump would be proud of...[/quote]

Except there was no such thing as charter schools when Ellington opened in 1974.

The Wikipedia entry is pretty accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington_School_of_the_Arts[/quote]

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