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[quote=Anonymous]I found the City Paper article linked earlier in the thread, and the related spreadsheet analysis from the Education Committee, to be pretty useful in understanding what's happening.  There's a limited budget for renovations of schools.  Each school wants a big piece of the pie.  There are over 100 schools.  The Education Committee created a methodology to rank each school's need for renovations, using factors such as when the school received its last renovation effort, how full the school is, whether the student population is growing or shrinking, etc.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/article/20780187/dc-council-tries-to-fix-broken-school-modernization-program
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2830804-2016-Facilities-Analysis-With-Key-for-Dist.html

Shepherd ranked in the 80s on that list, along with other schools often discussed here like Ellington, Deal, Roosevelt, Hearst, and Janney, meaning there are 70+ other schools which are deemed more in need of renovations than Shepherd.  The top of the priority list seems mostly claimed by schools in Wards 7 and 8, although there is a smattering from each of the Wards.  For those of you who like to keep score on Wards, there's only one Ward 3 school in the top 24.  Each of those top 24 schools scored 10 on the renovation scale, which means they've never had any renovation at all.  By contrast, Shepherd scored a 4, which suggests it's had some renovation in the recent past.

I'm sure this is frustrating for everyone, and I'm sure there's lots of neighborhood politics at play.  But it seems from looking at the spreadsheet that the Education Committee was trying to create an objective methodology that took politics and neighborhood power out of the equation.[/quote]

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