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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seem to be one or two posters who have an ax to grind with Ellington. There's plenty to gripe about regarding renovation cost. Why the hate toward the Board and students? The Board doesn't admit students, the faculty does through an audition process. Would love to know if you're the same angry guy that complained about the former principal's salary.[/quote]

People have been asking this several times, perhaps you know the answer. What is the proportion of students who come from outside DC?[/quote]

No one 'hates' anyone.  But the Ellington board is responsible here, as they have oversight responsibility for the school.  It's not just the train wreck of shocking cost overruns, it's the fact that the board's governance and accountability processes seem totally dysfunctional.

With the huge subsidies by DC's taxpayers and the fact that Ellington turns away students, no one who lives outside DC should attend Ellington.[/quote]

What are the huge subsidies? How much and where are they from?[/quote]

Same per pupil allocations and payments as any other DCPS school. [/quote]

IF Ellington is getting the same per pupil allocations and payments as any other DCPS school, then DE is really living large because 20 percent of Ellington's Operating budget comes from private funds.  However, 100% of its capital budget (for the renovation) comes from DC.  At a now projected $210 million, Ellington's project is sucking, if not all the oxygen out of the room, at least a heavily disproportionate share of DC's renovation project.  And while Ellington's costs continue to climb with no cuts and no consequences, DC is hacking far lesser school renovation budgets and underfunding others from the start.  Ask Murch parents for example.  As parents at schools whose renovations, in the most optimistic scenario, have been pushed well into the next decade.

Call it what you will:  DC's Ritz, the Taj Mahal, the Marion B,arry School of the Arts and Grafts.  Duke Ellington is a scandal.  [/quote]

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