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In theory (and as this be DC, so that's a big assumption), the Ellington board members are supposed to act as fiduciaries.  [/quote]

Fiduciary to the school, not to DCPS or the taxpayers of the city.[/quote]

Being a publicly-supported school fiduciary doesn't confer a duty to steal the taxpayers blind!  And the Ellington board doesn't exactly have a good record in providing oversight even just of the school.  Several years ago, the Ellington board agreed to pay its principal, for a school of only 500 pupils, over twice the highest comparable salary for a DCPS high school principal.  It turned out it was also twice the national scale, when the Ellington principal then left to accept only half of his former Ellington compensation in a job with system-wide responsibility for the LA Unified School District, the second largest system in the country with almost 700,000 students.  And the most outrageous part is that the Ellington board agreed to pay such an above-scale compensation package for its head at the same time when Ellington was laying off full-time teaching staff, citing budget pressures.  Oy![/quote]

This is indeed outrageous behavior, hijacking public money.

Who's the enabler in the Mayor's office or in City Council?[/quote]

All of the above.  The Mayor put it in the budget and the Council approved it.  They've all said in various meetings that they support the modernization moving forward.[/quote]

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