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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]curious.. was the Ellington renovation really 200 MILLION dollars?  If that is true, where did the money come from? taxpayers? 
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I've never seen publication of the final number.  A year and a half before completion, news articles stated the figure as 180 Mil.[/quote]

Search the archives. IT's been debated to death on other threads.

DC owns the Ellington building, managed the design and the renovation. The renovation was paid from the city's capital budget. Same budget that pays for every other DCPS renovation.[/quote]

And the reason why, if your DC neighborhood school has not been renovated yet, DCPS suddenly has found cost-cutting religion.  After Ellington, the cupboard is pretty bare.  But don't fret.  Some kid from PG County is getting an arts education in a Taj Mahal on your dime.[/quote]

Can we stop this lie, please? The cost associated with Ellington includes the renovation of two other schools to serve as swing space while Ellington was being renovated. Those other two schools can now function, so DC got three schools out of that cost. It did not all go to renovating Ellington.[/quote]

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