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If there is a viable alternative to Lab lease somewhere in this nearly decade-long soap opera, I'd love to see it. If not, please, let's just move on to the big problems. 
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Mary Cheh suggested an early childhood center so more local schools could offer pre-k. If all it needs is $2 million in renovations the council could find that under the sofa cushions.

Muriel Bowser suggested we might need another WOTP high school. The Hardy site is bigger than the Ellington site.

Or, DC could, you know, follow the law on disposal of surplus property: offer it to a charter first, then consider other public purposes, then put it out to bid.

The reality is none of these options have been explored. Nothing other than giving it to the Lab School has been considered by anyone in the city government. Not only is the proposed deal a give-away, its a sole-source contract: the beneficiary is being specified by the Council. That's a bad business practice, and it's not generally legal. Except the Council is making its own rules in this case.

What's crazy is ceding control of the property for 50 years. A lot changes in 50 years. Fifty years ago, DCPS had four times as many students as it has today.  Who knows what it will look like 50 years from now.[/quote]

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