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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the context of Jefferson's jumping the modernization queue once white, Brent families became interested and the talk about bus lines being shifted, I think this NY Time article is instructive - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/nyregion/a-principal-is-accused-of-being-a-communist-rattling-a-brooklyn-school.html

Particularly, these passages - FYI - Millenium was opened apparently at the request of white families -

She had been begging, for years for money to fix up her school. “You mean there is money? They’ve been sitting on money or they can find money if it’s for white students?” Ms. Bloomberg recalled thinking. “This was too much. It was right in our faces. It became clear to the students: ‘You’re not good enough.’”

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Then in January, Ms. Bloomberg sent an email to department officials accusing them of discriminating against the predominantly black and Latino schools at John Jay by allotting Millennium twice as many sports teams as the other schools.[/quote]

Jumped the queue?  Actually what happened is DCPS finally looked at the demographics and realized that having the VN students show up in the middle of the construction was a bad idea.

However frankly when several Ward 6 schools were bumped down the list year after year, it is amazing that any school is on the list. EH and JA are basically the only middle schools haven't been touched in the city.

In general, I have heard a lot of grumbling in SE about how Charles doesn't care about anything south of East Capitol. However he will win again because those are basically lifetime appointments. [/quote]

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