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I have first-hand knowledge that it is now too late to relocate Ellington to a different location (which could have saved its students thousands of commute hours/year. That's another DCPS missed trains).  So for the purpose of this thread I suggest that we keep it off the list. [/quote]

That is a shame,  I heard on WAMU today that the huge SW waterfront development where construction is about to start will include a new 6000 seat performance theater.  Together with the Arena Stage complex down Maine Ave,, that vibrant area will soon be a second major arts venue.  The present Jefferson middle school site could be rebuilt as a new Ellington, steps from the Metro (including the central L'Enfant transfer hub) and synergistically part of this new arts area.  Best of all, it would have been more accessible to more of its students than the Georgetown site.  The "C" in DCPS sure doesn't stand for "creative" thinking![/quote]

That's a really great idea!![/quote]

PLEASE abandon the idea of moving Ellington, the re-do of Ellington as a top performing arts school is a done deal, shovel in the ground as soon as they get design approval.  This thread should focus on the most viable strategy to provide a good HS east of the park.  I think a test-in high school would be the trick to making such a school evolve the fastest, but it's going to be near-impossible politically, unless.....we think outside the box.  For example, find out how SWW developed as a test-in school.  Did the fact that it takes on a large number of foreign exchange students every year (through the State Dept.) have something to do with how that was finessed?  Ellington is an application school because of its magnet for the arts.  What could this new school offer that could only be done via an application process of some kind?  Maybe this is an AP-oriented school (a la BasisDC)?  Maybe this is a serious STEM school where there might be a tie-in to NIH or Walter Reed, or even to the health sciences facility that would be going into the old Walter Reed campus between Georgia and 16th Streets?  Maybe this is foreign service/international magnet connected to the large State Dept. presence on the old Walter Reed campus?  Maybe this is a law/social justice campus with ties to Howard U?  Maybe this is a design/urban planning/sustainability magnet with ties to Catholic U and/or UMd.?

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I get that you're protecting your turf, I really do. But Ellington is NOT a done deal. Stop trying to puff out your chest in a feeble attempt to intimidate. [/quote]

i don't know why Ellington families and supporters wouldn't jump immediately on an idea that would provide larger, better facilities, centrally located for better student access and where other arts centers are a block or two away in what will be one of the most interesting areas of our city.   No one is talking about throwing Ellington out of its building for a restored Western High School unless and until a superior facility were built.  I hope that you're not just opposing more creative solutions in knee-jerk fashion, believeing that there is some nefarious purpose -- no doubt part of "The Plan" that Marion Barry often darkly hints at -- to move Ellington out of Georgetown.[/quote]

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