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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be clear: Muriel Bowser DOES NOT support restoring the $6 million grant to DCI.

When she met with current and future DCI parents she was quite clear:

First, she backed off from having voted for the grant by claiming that it was sprung on the council in the budget process. That's false.

Second, she told the parents to prove that they cannot make DCI work without this money. That's an impossible task because DCI's organizers are committed and will make the school work with or without the grant -- if they have the grant they can focus that much more on the hard work to open a great school rather than chasing other funding sources. Energy that goes to one can't go to the other.

Bowser is happy to have DCI (and other charters) in Ward 4 so she can take the credit, but she's not willing to actually work to make the school happen. In the same meeting, she expressed a very anti-charter viewpoint, expressing her irrational fear that if charters are too successful, there will be no neighborhood schools. That's why she doesn't support capital funding for charters.

For those who skipped to the end: Bowser does not support restoring the $6 million grant to DCI.[/quote]

Bowser lost my vote in the primary the moment she talked about neighborhood preference for charters.  I'm not surprised at all that she has backpedalled on support for DCI funding like this.  I've listened carefully to her speak about her views on education in DC several times: she is clueless, truly has no plan and no real life understanding of either the issues or the possible solutions.  Her comments often show she doesn't know what she's talking about.  It's maddening that's she's most likely our next Mayor, since for me education is THE biggest issue.[/quote]

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