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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't if they still rezone to Murch and ask them to stop taking OOB?[/quote]

Murch is designed for 400 students, has over 620, is very very full, with entire grades in trailers, and a building from 100 years ago. In addition to that, Murch will be renovated in the next two year and the over 600 Murch kids will have to go somewhere we do not yet know where. in short, Murch is not the solution for Janney's overcrowding.[/quote]

Murch, Lafayette..they are all overcrowded, falling apart and being renovate in soon or already under construction. I understand Janney is pretty nice after the renovation (so be thankful for that because Murch is in some bad shape) but it does not sound like the new Janney facility was built for it's growing population as I'm no sure Murch and Lafayette will either.  More families moving into the NW hoods and using the DCPS, new apartments being built along Conn Ave,  and a brand new school causes an increase in the student population.  Fact of the matter is that none of theses schools have enough space.  Some could be gained by not allowing OOB kids but I understand DCPS holds a certain # of spots in these schools for OOB kids and then they stay on track to attend Deal and Wilson and the over crowding is perpetuated.

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Mann is not overcrowded and they just got renovated-there are about 300 kids in the school and the peek-first grades at least (don't know the numbers in the older grades) have 18 to a class-half of the class you are speaking of.we also have a ft teacher and ft aide in every class.[/quote]

DCPS lost an opportunity by not making Mann much bigger in its renovation. It has more land that either Janney or Murch and is less than half the size of each. They should have made Mann bigger and shifted all three boundaries toward Mann. Actually, they still could do this.[/quote]

Too late for that.  What DC should do, however, is shift boundaries toward Hearst.  This is a newly renovated and expanded school in the heart of Ward 3.  Yet it is still 80% or so OOB enrollment, which means a lot of surplus capacity currently used for OOB slots, which could easily become IB.  In addition to its own facilities, Hearst adjoins a DC park, with a large field and tennis courts.  And unlike Mann, it is a Deal feeder school.[/quote]

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