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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundaries won't fix anything:  the schools around Murch are Janney, Layfayette, and Hearst
  Janney is overcrowded.  The northern part of Murch was already rerouted to Lafayette -- which would be overcrowded if more of Murch is rerouted there.  The southern part of Murch was already rerouted to Hearst - except for houses literally a five minute walk from Murch.   The problem at Murch is that the historic preservation people won't let us change the original building too much, and NPS won't allow building on the part of the land it owns -- necessitating having part of the project underground.   That is the part that DC now doesn't want to pay for.
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Maybe the answer is simply to enforce the existing boundaries strictly. IIRC, there are about 150 OOB students there. Seems a simple answer is to refuse any new OOB students until the school gets down to its capacity number. Not fair to remove the OOB students already in the school, so just let them work through via attrition, which should take 3 years. Problem mostly solved in three years. If school is still overcapacity after 3 years, then consider boundary changes.

That doesn't solve the current cost and design problems with renovation though. Seems like DCPS may need to delay renovation by 3-6 months to sort those out. Or maybe there are parts that can begin now. Frankly, I don't think Murch is entitled to all the money; if the budget needs to be cut, so be it. But then redesign in a way that makes sense, not just by randomly slicing the plan. [/quote]

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