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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS is stuck with its buildings for the long term and has to plan for long term needs and deal with long term maintenance and compliance in 100+ year old buildings. It was a huge struggle for our school just to get the bathrooms made non-awful. GDS takes forever to fix anything. Being part of a larger system has really significant down sides.

Have you been inside Yu Ying, or the new Latin Cooper building? They're as nice as any, certainly way nicer than our Ward 5 Title I.

And of course, why invest in charter buildings when everyone, including the PCSB, is saying the sector is going to contract?[/quote]

Yes, those buildings are nice--and cost the schools specifcally money to build.

Have you been the Lafayette Elementary? Dorothy Heights? Both absolutely stunning.

Seen the giant project that Whittier is getting for their temporary campus during their remodel? Millions and millions of dollars so those kids don't have to ride a bus to a flex space.

DCPS schools are getting tons spent on their remodels. [/quote]

To add to your list: Burroughs and Bunker Hill too. Swing space is great. Remodel for Burroughs looks amazing.

And Brookland Middle might not be a great school, but it’s got a lovely building.  [/quote]

The new remodels are amazing. Those kids deserve those better buildings. If you've been here in DC a while, you know just how bad the buildings were (and in some places still are). The charter kids deserve decent facilities too. The people who hate charters (most who don't even have kids in schools) have made the issues into DCPS versus charters. When it should be here's what it takes to educate kids adequately and then make it fair across DCPS and charters.[/quote]

Well, it's a question of what's "fair" when one part of the system has to take kids all year and guarantee enough space in perpetuity, and the other side doesn't have to do that or care about that at all.

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