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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So shady.  Why the need for an emergency resolution?  [/quote]

Ask Grosso. It's not even clear the mayor supports this.[/quote]

The Mayor was at the Palisades Citizens Association meeting in October and spoke in favor of giving the school to Lab.[/quote]

DCPS doesn't want the decrepit building back.  The only people who are in a huff are the decrepit neighbors.[/quote]

That is a Lab School talking point that has no basis in fact. DCPS has never made a determination on the building.

As for being decrepit, it was built at the same time and from the same plans as Key, Mann and Stoddert. DCPS is spending tens of millions of dollars to try and cram more space into those "decrepit" buildings.[/quote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/lab-school-seeks-to-extend-lease-on-northwest-washington-school-building/2013/12/02/f2dd0faa-5b8f-11e3-bf7e-f567ee61ae21_story.html?utm_term=.de9752ef02bd

"The Hardy School has not been used as a public school since the mid-1990s. In 1998, the city leased it to Rock Creek International, a private school that declared bankruptcy in 2006. The Lab School acquired Rock Creek’s lease and has used the building for about the last five years.

Lab currently pays $80,000 per year for the property, which includes a land area of 50,000 square feet and a building of more than 17,000 square feet. The proposed lease would charge $16.50 per rentable square foot, but the city would discount up to $10 per square foot to help offset the school’s operating costs.  Lab’s expenditures on building renovations would also count as a credit toward the rent charge; for every dollar Lab spends on construction, it would pay the city one less dollar in rent.  After 25 years, the base charge would be reset according to fair market value.  Deputy Mayor for Education Abigail Smith said the Gray administration is “comfortable moving forward with the lease.”

“The Lab School serves an important role as part of the continuum of services available to students in the District, and we believe there are a number of viable options to address the over-enrollment issues at nearby schools,” Smith wrote in an e-mail."

DCPS doesn't want the building back b/c they'd have to pay to renovate it as well as find a location for the DCPS kids with LDs who attend the school.[/quote]

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