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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]

At the risk of introducing logic and reason into this discussion...The amount of money DCPS has spent to renovate its operating schools is irrelevant to the discussion. By law DCPS doesn't fund charter buildings so that's a red herring. The argument that this issue in any way informs whether or to what degree Latin II was denied a building is also nonsense; DC has not disposed of any "excess" buildings in the period relevant to Latin II's opening. What pissed me (and many others) off was when DC used to sell (or basically gift) to developers DCPS buildings for development as condos or other non-education related uses. That was what drove the requirement for right of first refusal for charters.

As school enrollments and projections have increased DC has basically stopped the practice of labeling physical resources as "excess" thereby leaving no pool of buildings for charters to claim under a right of first refusal. Unless you can point to an excess building Latin was denied perhaps the discussion could focus on relevant matters?
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