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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 candidates are starting to come out with positions on this. What are people's takes?[/quote]

Here's Frumin on Foxhall and MacArthur:

https://fruminforward3.com/food-for-thought-new-schools/

He thinks we should pause planning for the Foxhall ES to see if that money might be better spent elsewhere in Ward 3 DCPS and says the idea of a 50/50 boundary/lottery HS for 1,000 kids on MacArthur is idealistically sound but logistically unsound because a.) the school is not in a central location, making it difficult to reach for many; and b.) building a new half-lottery school in Ward 3 will only draw kids away from already-underutilized high schools elsewhere in the city. He envisions a high school on the MacArthur site for 700, but doesn't say where those 700 should come from (Hardy plus kids moved from Wilson? Redrawn W3 boundaries? Hardy plus fewer lottery seats?)

He also says "the way to increase access to Ward 3 schools is to build more affordable housing in the area, a project to which I am deeply committed."

Well, good luck with that. Ward 3 is definitely getting more housing, but almost none of it will be affordable because developers can't make money off such housing.

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Frumin has to know that there's no real available land to build more affordable housing that is convenient to MacArthur HS. That's why DCPS bought the site, despite its unfortunate location - beggars can't be choosers.

There's literally no land available for big affordable housing projects or new schools that is convenient to families, particularly low income ones. [/quote]

I don't think he was talking about more affordable units in Palisades, but rather in the Ward in general.[/quote]

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