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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ultimately DC has to be responsive to the community.  And the Northewest community needs another high school. [/quote]

This.

Make Ellington Western HS Again.[/quote]
LOL will never happen [/quote]

Rumor is that the feds have been looking into the contracts and payments for the Duke Ellington construction.  If so, and if folks end up going to jail, Ellington could be in for a rocky ride.[/quote]

The corruption around DE has been nothing but brazen -- some accountability would be great news.[/quote]

Even if so that has nothing to do with Duke Ellington the school. The city owns, funded and built it. [/quote]

Not so easy cowboy.

It's all about DE the school, since it has a unique operational structure.
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The operational structure is technically no different than any other arts school in the country and all it means that the board determines how the city's money gets spent internally because the city does not fund arts. Whatever is raised pays teacher salaries. That's it. No operational structure of the school hired contractors of had anything to do with overages.It is a DCPS building, solely, and Ellington is a tenant. [/quote]

No other DCPS school which has received hundreds of millions from the city has the singular lack of accountability that DE has.

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Because it is a school run by a foundation in partnership with DCPS. It is different by design. And DCPS could always choose to end the relationship if it chose to.

DCPS owns the building and has sway over many aspects of the school's operation. DCPS pays for maintenance and upkeep of the building. Students must meet DCPS and OSSE graduation standards. Students have to take PARCC in 10th grade. Administrators are hired by DCPS. Core subject teachers are DCPS employees; arts block teachers are not.

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This is interesting.

How exactly could DCPS liberate that building it paid for and over which it has zero oversight while a corrupt foundation has been engaged in, hmmm, very creative business?[/quote]

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