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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few people on this thread have estimated the cost of operating Filmore at $500.000- where did this number comes from? I've poked around the [url]DCPS data center[/http://dcpsdatacenter.com/fy16school_comparison.html] and the [url]DCPS budget guide[/http://www.dcpsschoolbudgetguide.com/fy17_budget_guide.pdf], but couldn't find a mention of Filmore Arts Center.

I'd love a link to more information![/quote]

From the Northwest Current in September:

"...D.C. Public Schools lists Fillmore as a “highlight” of its arts education offerings on its website. Students are bused once a week to the arts center, participating in dance, music, theater, and visual and digital arts instruction.

To fund Fillmore, the five schools divert their arts instruction funding and the school system adds $600,000, for an operating budget of roughly $1.6 million. Last spring, D.C. Public Schools wrote to the community that the city spends $1,149 per student to operate Fillmore; in comparison, $458 is spent per student across all elementary schools “to support art and music instruction.”"

https://ruth4schools.com/fillmore-at-risk-from-nw-current/[/quote]

The cost of Fillmore is a drop in the bucket compared with the cost of renovating the overcrowded  Fillmore schools to give them the same amount of space dedicated to arts and music as the DCPS schools with in house art and music programs.[/quote]

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