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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look every parent wants their child in a good school that's not physically crumbling and that cuts across all wards. The issue with modernizations and renovations is they seem to be done in a vacuum with zero coordination with any demographics. It's not rocket science. Just look at deal and Wilson. Deal was renovated for 300 a class and Wilson for 400 a class. Deal is not the only feeder and yet it would be sending almost enough students ( I do realize they don't all go) to almost fill Wilson. And then surprise! They are both way overcrowded. Where's the accountability? It just seems to continue where the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing. [/quote]

In fact, it is Rocket Science.  There is a lot more to balance than enrollment numbers.  That includes finances, the physical status of 150+ buildings with decades of deferred maintenance, changing boundaries, politics, hazmats, etc.[/quote]

It also needs to take into account a 20+ year view forward trying to prognosticate what is happening in terms of urban development, population, demographics and other trends.  Yet DC too often tends to be focused on the here and now and only gazes backward in time for perspective rather than trying to anticipate the future.  They pump money into schools that are bound for closure, pump money into low-income infrastructure in neighborhoods that are at the epicenter of gentrification, et cetera.[/quote]

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