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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like the lobbyists were successful in keeping the Old Hardy school out of the report.[/quote]

Isn't that building still under lease until [b]2023[/b]?

Why would the city have factored it in for planning purposes? The Ward 3 overcrowding issue is[b] much, much bigger [/b]than booting out a special education school with a max occupancy of 90 kids in a rundown building with very demanding neighbors who would fight any increase in traffic.

Let...it...go.  :roll: [/quote]

You left out "private" in your description of the current tenant.

2023 is well within the planning horizon of the master facilities plan.  And shouldn't it be 2022 anyway? The original lease was for 25 years starting January 1998 so 25 year would be December, 2022. So they'd have to be out by June 2022 -- which is three school years away.

The building is exactly the same as the main parts of Key, Mann and Stoddert, they were all built at the same time from the same plans. The city-owned plot at Hardy is much larger than any of those.[/quote]

Lab School is private but it's not like Sidwell or Maret. It's for special ed and has a few DC-funded kids not being served by DC public and charters. The city is awful at serving kids with disabilities. Historically, Lab had a higher amount of DC kids. Randomly cutting funding hurt DC families who couldn't afford tuition upfront and lawyers to sue for reimbursement. Meanwhile, there are a lot of DC kids who are suffering unnecessarily in DCPS public and charter schools. These kids legally deserve a free education, just like yours.

How about pressuring DCPS to serve more kids with disabilities instead of continuing to selfishly covet a space with zero likelihood of physically expanding thanks to NIMBYism.

Is there any evidence that Old Hardy is a viable option for solving the bigger problems of overcrowding? There will likely be increases in kids with learning disabilities along with the general population.  Do those of you who covet the Old Hardy space for a neighborhood school have any ideas on how to serve the current and future students with disabilities?

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Just under 10% of the kids at Lab come from DCPS. Lab only has 65 kids at that site. DCPS averages 14% special ed kids, so a a DCPS school at that site would serve far more DC kids than Lab does currently.

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