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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people are concerned about the theft of a public asset, they should all sign then a petition to make Duke Ellington’s site public again.  Jelleff is not the biggest scam and swindle in Burleith.  Ellington is the beneficiary of huge sums of public largesse - nearly 200 million dollars to renovate the building and close to 90 percent of its annual operating budget.  Yet whenever watchdogs demand accountability from Ellington, the school hides behind an opaque and self-perpetuating governance scheme to claim that it is not really a public school.  Fine, let’s revert and recapture a public asset - the former Western High School campus — for the public.  Estimates are that approximately half of Ellington’s enrollment doesn’t even live in DC, despite being subsidized on the DC taxpayers’ nickel.  Northwest DC could use another public high school.  Let’s rerun this public asset that has been privately misappropriated to the public for public use.  Westernize Ellington again!! [/quote]

As good as an idea that may be, only the very optimistic would have any hope that the building would be repurposed to a general public HS immediately after $200M in use-specific renovations were completed. [/quote]

Does supporting this idea preclude opposing handing Jelleff to Maret for another ten years for peanuts?  No. People can hold two nonconflicting ideas in their heads at the same time. Try it. [/quote]

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