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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different issue and point in the process. Murch has been handled very poorly but in a different way.[/quote]
Right, but Shepherd is not the only school facing budget cuts to its renovation process, correct?[/quote]

In the most recent markup of the Mayor's budget by the Council's Committee on Education, Shepherd is the only school that had its entire remaining renovations budget removed.

Shepherd is in a unique position, as Jeff mentioned, in that it was a phased renovation.  Since phased renovations are themselves being phased out, future school renovation budgets will be awarded in a lump sum.  So Shepherd is sort of stuck in the middle of this process, and instead of completing the phased renovation, the renovation is simply being abandoned.

Coolidge also had funds removed, but had much of it replaced in later years.

As for Grosso's comments about the need to prioritize renovations EOTR--not sure I buy it.  In the documents I've seen, of the $12.4 million budgeted for Shepherd, only about $4.3 million went to EOTR schools.  The rest went to WOTR schools, including $4.25 million for Oyster-Adams, $3 million to Francis Stevens, etc.
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