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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly.  Move Ellington to a surplus or underutilized building  in a more central part of the District.

By the way, considering that an arts education is so expensive, why are the DC taxpayers providing a free or heavily subsidized arts education to PG residents ??[/quote]

FFS learn the facts or drop it. Ellington families now have the most intrusive residency checks in the city every year. The up to 10% tuition paying out of state students are not all, or even mostly, from Prince George’s County. Further the Ellington Foundation picks up the tab for the extra operating costs.

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DC taxpayers fund 100 percent of Ellington’s capital costs (and all of its cost overruns) and about 93 percent of its operating budget.  Even for the above-board Maryland residents at Ellington (as opposed to the more numerous fraudsters who lie about a DC address), the school is not very diligent about actually collecting the heavily subsidized tuition.

Ellington is a terrible deal for hardworking DC taxpayers.  And care to guess how many Ellington board directors that the DC government gets to appoint ?  Zero.  There is ZERO accountability with Ellington.[/quote]

DCPS funds all capital costs for EVERY school -- including those with far worse performance than Ellington (see Ballou, Dunbar, Anacostia HSs). I think that any high school that is graduating 90%+ of its graduates, virtually all of whom go on to college, is doing right by DC taxpayers. [/quote]

It’s certainly doing right by PG fraudster- freeloader families ![/quote]

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