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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The money spent on Ellington should be divided up and put into arts education at every school in the city. [/quote]

Exactly.  How did Ellington become some privileged but unaccountable sacred cow (and moreover, one that serves a substantial population that doesn’t even live in the District)?![/quote]

Why do you all hate the arts so much? Seriously.

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That’s the question that you should answer! You want to deny any exposure to the arts to the rest of the kids in the city. It is a very unfair and privileged system DCPS has. If an 8th grader is not selected by Ellington what other options do they have to Pursue the arts?[/quote]

Exactly.  And to add insult to injury, Ellington takes out of state residents over DC kids (the MD and VA residents who are up front about their residence, not counting the fraudsters who illegally claim a DC address to go to Ellington).[/quote]

They can take up to 10%. It hasn’t hit that level in a couple years (check the audit data yourself). [b]Like it or not, Ellington is a private entity[/b] that has a contractual relationship with DCPS. The rules are different.

Why don’t you quit hating on the students who are there and seek to get the terms of the DCPS-Ellington contract changed (or cancelled) when it is up for renewal. [/quote]

Ellington is not exactly a private entity.  It’s staff and faculty are considered DC government employees.  We pay for nearly all of the school’s operating expenses, all of its renovations and for the horrendous cost overruns (fraud, waste and mismanagement).  It uses a public building that by rights should be the second public high school for Upper Northwest.  How much does this private entity pay in annual lease payments for this public asset?  A private Ellington foundation provides paltry marginal support to Ellington.  What we don’t like is that Ellington apparently has no accountability through its board or otherwise.  It’s sorry record of bloat, self-dealing and major mismanagement (if not criminal embezzlement in the renovation) is embarrassing.[/quote]

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