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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of you will get in to YY, MV, LAMB, Stokes, etc. and don't want your kids mingling with kids at D.C. Bilingual...so hate on Sela or form your own charter, and then [b]when you end up in some cramped church basement [/b]- you will remember all of the criticism waged at Sela (or YY, or Basis, or Latin, or whomever your bashing for kicks these days) and wish you'd been a little bit kinder...Witness the bashing of MV for getting itself a new space...not green enough, whine whine. Get over yourselves![/quote]

Soooo true. [/quote]

The reference to church basements or social halls is not far off the mark.  There's a church at Mass & Idaho that has been the crowded incubator for several charters, all of which moved on because of space challenges.  It is very, very difficult even for established, successful charters to find suitable long-term facilities.  Once the hunt is over, they have to raise the funds for renovation or build out.  Unlike in the regular DCPS system, there is no capital budget for charters.   Others have asked why more charters don't locate for very long west of Rock Creek Park.  First, much of the demand for charters comes from parents in tradtionally underserved school areas, and many "WOTP" DCPS schools are pretty good.  Second, I don't believe that there are any surplus DCPS buildings west of Rock Creek (not that DC makes the process very easy for charters to secure surplus schools anywhere in the city).  And the costs of finding long-term space on the open market are prohibitive, especially WOTP.  Hence, the short-term basement solution in a church that needs cash and locating long term in areas with more space options.[/quote]

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