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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess.  So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space?  It's even closer to their main buildings.  They could do it much more "privately."[/quote]

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students. 
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The description of Lab as one of "a series of private schools" on the keep Old Hardy website is both inaccurate and inflammatory. The Foxhall site has had only 3 uses: a DC public middle school that closed for under-enrollment, a publicly funded DC charter school that closed for financial and enrollment problems, and a nonprofit special education school designed to serve DC public school students. 
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Lab is not Sidwell or Whittle. It's not trying to buy the crappy old building. It's not a fly-by-night money maker.  Lab actually accepts DC students that the other private schools around it do not.

As a Wilson-feeder parent, here's my question: what is the DCPS plan to serve the increasing number of kids with learning disabilities that will come with the increased population of kids in general?

Or put another way, how can DCPS better serve its most underserved public school students including the hundreds of students with disabilities currently in the Wilson feeder pattern?

Anyone?[/quote]

Prior to Lab the tenant was Rock Creek International School, a private school.

Prior to that it was Hardy Middle School. It didn't close due to low enrollment, it moved to a bigger building on Wisconsin Avenue. Prior to that it was Hardy Elementary School for 40 years. [/quote]

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