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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...[/quote]
I don't know either. It's really weird like someone has a grudge against the Lab School. The area is very low density with major large land holders(Corps of Engineers, Georgetown, St Pats, GDS, OLV, Safeway, Germany embassy, park land) vs residential density. [/quote]

No grudge. The neighboring dcps schools are overcrowded and want the space to move kids out of trailers. Why should dc taxpayers pay to educate mostly out of state kids?[/quote]

+1 Lab is a wonderful school.  But at $40K per kid per year, it can afford to get its own piece of real estate without getting a sweetheart deal from DCPS.[/quote]

Is there a reason Lab should get this land as part of an "emergency" disposition of the DC Council without any process for public comment or without allowing others to bid on this land?   Because the Council tried to give it away as part of an emergency procedure for a lease of  80K a year, i.e. 6.6K per month, i.e. about the same price of renting a house in Ward 3, except that this is a 50K square foot lot with a huge building on it. And DC is unlikely to receive any of this rent, because Lab can deduct any amount it puts towards renovations.  So yes, some of us see non-transparent gifts of public property to private schools when public schools are overcrowded as a "problem."[/quote]

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