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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, just like Wilson which attracts kids from all over.  Great spot--on Red Line and on Wisconsin Ave. Bus line. If you have a better spot, why don't you propose it and build it?  these things called charter actually take effort you know.[/quote]

It has been SO difficult for charters to get good spaces.  Despite a law that required DCPS to give charters first priority for empty space, DCPS stonewalled during the Fenty years and for part of the Gray administration.  Part of it was institutional hostility to charters from the school bureaucracy and a lot of it was that favored developers called in chits with the mayors' offices to get choice DCPS properties put up for sale.  On top of that, charters have no capital budget for purchases and renovations.  So they have to raise the money themselves and finance the rest, which is tough.  It took Latin a while to find its permanent home.  Moreover, when Latin rented on 16th St, they were in two buildings that were some distance apart, so I don't think that Latin has any appetite for a second, split campus.[/quote]

She's the one saying she wants to make changes!!!![/quote]

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