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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i don’t think anyone is “whining” about the lab.  I think there’s just a general outrage at the private wealth on display in one public school within a district where there are some pretty big pockets of poverty.  And to see comments about how any school could get a corporate sponsor to fund a $200,000 project if only they would put in the effort shows an amazing lack of awareness of the economic realities in other communities, especially when seeing that many of the donations at ASFS came from parents.  Now that the lab has become somewhat of a lightning rod within the larger conversation about the swap, it’s fair to start asking whether the magnitude of that privately funded improvement project was improper.  This is a public school system.  If you want your child to have the best that money can buy, private schools offer just that.  Public schools, however, are constrained when it comes to accepting private funding that is being dedicated to only one school rather than the school system at large.  There are laws and stuff.[/quote]

What “laws and stuff”? [/quote]

As a starting point, APS policy D-15, which incorporates an evaluation of whether the privately funded project will foster or exacerbate inequities between schools. Presumably that ties into the Fourteenth Amendment, but I’ll leave that to the lawyers.[/quote]

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