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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The city will spend astronomical amounts renovating schools, but only if they're DCPS. DC spent $180 million redoing Duke Ellington, which only has 600 or so students. Works out to about $300,000 per student. [/quote]

Banneker got a $130 million renovation (700 students) [/quote]

There's a long list of DCPS high schools that have gotten $100 million+ renovations[/quote]

How long exactly is that long list?

What portion of DCPS schools is it?[/quote]

The city has spent $3 billion and counting remodeling public schools (but not charters!)...[/quote]

Some of the renovations are really over the top. Apparently money is no object for some schools. [/quote]

It's kinda hilarious how the city treats charter school kids like red headed stepchildren. You would not think a government would or could go so far out of its way to be shitty to a group of children. [/quote]

DC is obsessed with the “right” people using city services. It IS racial. It is a low level counter insurgency waged against “transplants.” To turn a phrase, you face twice as much scrutiny and be twice as good. [/quote]

I think the city still resents the charter school system, even though half the kids in the city are now it in, and the way it tries to get back at it is by starving the schools of money. The difference between DCPS facilities and charter facilities is mind blowing. I would not think it is legal to treat an entire class of children like third class citizens. [/quote]

I realize this thread is talking about facilities funding, but I think the other big part of the conversation is that for years, charters were expanding/opening with seemingly little thought as to how many schools would be in a certain neighborhood, how many seats would be open, etc. The birthrate has stopped increasing, we have too many schools/seats, and that is hard to un-do. DCPS closed a lot of their buildings 20ish+ years ago, and they can't close many more bc there needs to be guaranteed/neighborhood/by-right options for all students within a certain distance from their home. Not to mention the budget of the city overall has been hit hard recently, so you end up with less money all around. Many people argue that charter schools opened to respond to a need/demand, which is true -but the lack of big picture planning resulted in a large number of independent charter schools opening, many of them serving the same communities with similar models. 
All that to say, it is a lot more nuanced and complex than just 'give us more money'.[/quote]

Seems a little rich to blame charters when the city routinely spends $100 million to renovate DCPS schools that are already severely under-enrolled. Anacostia High School has 250 students in total. [/quote]

People here are obsessed with poor Black kids getting a school building over a decade ago. It's weird and unhealthy.[/quote]

Here's a list of major school renovations in Washington D.C.:

Duke Ellington -- $180 million
Coolidge -- $160 million
Jackson-Reid -- $130 million
Dunbar -- $125 million
Roosevelt -- $125 million
Woodson -- $100 million
Deal -- $100 million 
Cardozo -- $90 million
Deal -- $90 million
Ballou -- $90 million 
Jefferson -- $90 million
Truesdell -- $80 million 
Janney -- $70 million
Anacostia -- $60 million

Notice anything weird about which schools the city decides get the fancy renovations? [/quote]

Don't forget:

Oyster Adams -- $79 million
Dorothy Height -- $63 million
JO Wilson -- $91 million
MLK -- $65 million
Burrville -- $85 million
Garfield -- $60.5 million
Burroughs -- $75 million

All DCPS. No charters. [/quote]

Again, DCPS and DGS do not renovate charters. That's not how the system is set up. Part of the point of being a charter school is getting to manage your own renovations and not dealing with DCPS and DGS. You seem not to understand this. It's not some big conspiracy. It's how it's supposed to work.

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Nobody cares which pocket the money comes from. The point is that the city is starving children in charters of resources while simultaneously building palaces for kids who happen to go to DCPS. Everyone should be treated equally.[/quote]

Eh I like charters and think they provide an important outlet but DCPS has to do so much more than charters by law, of course they get more resources. [/quote]

Add this to the long list of myths DCPS tells itself. The only reason charters exist is because people didn't think DCPS was doing its job. [/quote]

If your charter had to take a pro rata share of kids who newly moved to the district after the start of the school year, in all grades, and a pro rata share of kids expelled from other schools, how much money do you think would be fair to support this?[/quote]

Bump. Seriously, how much is this worth? Dollar amounts please. [/quote]

It's a rounding error. [/quote]

No it isn't. Are you just saying whatever pops into your head without doing any research? OSSE has data on this: https://osse.dc.gov/node/1304951 scroll down to Mobility Report.

In the school year before this one, DCPS had a net change in enrollment from October 7 to May 15 of +728. That's not a rounding error, it's an entire school worth of kids. Charters had a net change of -1752. Those are the sum of the K-12 tab and the Pre-K tab on the spreadsheets. So DCPS gets additional funding to account for this, because it happens consistently.[/quote]

Because enrollment goes up by 1 percent, DCPS gets $100 million renovations of all its schools, and charters get nothing?[/quote]

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