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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far DcPs has not given parents any evidence that arts education is not going to be negatively effected.

Please can they show us school by school their ideas. Particularly how to over come the absence of space for music, dance classes, and painting. [/quote]

They didn't even do any sort of space or facilities study for the 5 schools that would be impacted before declaring that Fillmore would be closed. If they took a moment to look into it, they'll see that all five schools are oversubscribed and don't have physical space to add art and music programs onsite.  This is all about money, pure and simple with short-term vision. DCPS central office wants to recoup any money they can NOW so that they can throw it at pet projects like the extended school year at 11 schools, the male-only high school, programs for students who are 18+ years old, etc. Perhaps all of those ideas are good ones, but diminishing arts education for 1700 elementary students is not the way to do it. Especially when the central office price tag is around $600K. Peanuts, comparatively speaking.

And on another note, I encourage a scrappy investigative reporter to look into the busing contract process. The Fillmore schools have no say in which buses show up to take the students to Fillmore each week. Inexplicably, central office sends what are essentially luxury buses every damn week. [b]Why is that? Why does the district pay top dollar for this when yellow school buses would do just fine?[/b] There is a lot of corruption in this deal...I just know it.

Nevertheless, DCPS needs to keep Fillmore and stop screwing with schools.   [/quote]

Because DCPS doesn't own or operate any yellow school buses.

The ones you do see are the OSSE buses for special education students. [/quote]

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