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Tell us again why Latin didn't get any of the large school buildings that came up for bid and were obtained by other charters.

The city doesn't owe Latin a building FFS.

No, they did not "owe" Latin, they "owed" the educational landscape of our city. The law at the time gave charters right of first offer (an analogy would be DC tenants' rights to organized and purchase when a residential building is being sold), but released school buildings were instead sold off for great profit to developers by the city or simply sat upon. So no schools/school children got them. There are extensive articles and investigations into this like the one linked below that may help to clarify your understanding.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dc-is-deny...a-9cc9-e19cfbc87e51_story.html
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This.  Latin has an extremely long wait list, was strongly encouraged to open a second campus by the PCSB,  the city has spent hundreds of millions to renovate high schools like Cardozo, Coolidge and Dunbar which sit underenrolled, and still the city will not relinquish existing vacant school buildings for use by high-demand charters.  [/quote]

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