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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welp, we know where SWS it going to swing now....
Optics on this one are bad bad bad.[/quote]

This sucks all around.  No one is happy with that as a swing space.  [/quote]

"A spokesman for Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn said the District does not yet know what it will do with the building. He said[b] keeping it in the school system’s inventory is one option[/b]."

BS.  They know exactly what they are doing.  Swinging SWS there for the next two years.   They don't give a dime about the students at either of these schools, all they care about is saving money.  [/quote]

To me it sounds like they want to surplus/sell it, but not say it out loud yet because of law requiring them to make available to charters. [/quote]

My guess is swing space for now, then maybe some other use within DCPS after a renovation.  I don't see them giving up a site in a desirable central location.  They may need it in the 10-year time frame as schools to the north and west continue to fill up.[/quote]

This sounds like it would make sense.  There is a lot of housing in the pipeline around Georgia Ave.[/quote]

Also in Eckington/Edgewood and the McMillan Development if it ever happens.  In the long run they may have to carve out another elementary school to relieve overcrowding.  And yes, there is the question of Shaw Middle-- good location for it and hopefully big enough, I'm not sure if the courts and field along W St. NW belong to the same site...

In the short term, there are some upcoming modernizations in the area.  Some of these may be too far away or have other plans already announced, I don't really track it.  There is $27 million in the budget for renovation of a centralized swing space but I don't know what it is, and some of the money is partially spent so maybe this is for multiple sites?

Schools in the area that are high on the modernization list.  In two-year turns, these could keep the site occupied for quite a while.

SWS
Adams FY 2023 (too far?)
Browne
Tubman (has a site been announced?)
JO Wilson
Burroughs (too far?)
Seaton
Bunker Hill
Langley
Bruce-Monroe

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