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Anonymous wrote:I am getting very tired of the DC money and property giveaway. Vote any Republican candidate. Please.

It won't be any better with the republicans. They'll sell the building to the lab school for 7 cents on the dollar and extend the lab school tax abatements for the next 10 years.

You know this based on the time our Republican city council ran amuk and gave away all our money?

Anonymous wrote:I am getting very tired of the DC money and property giveaway. Vote any Republican candidate. Please.

David Catania has been lobbying for the Lab School. He's as close as they come in DC to a Republican.

Anonymous wrote:I am getting very tired of the DC money and property giveaway. Vote any Republican candidate. Please.

It won't be any better with the republicans. They'll sell the building to the lab school for 7 cents on the dollar and extend the lab school tax abatements for the next 10 years.

I am getting very tired of the DC money and property giveaway. Vote any Republican candidate. Please.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

Its no where near half. More like 20%.

According to the OSSE audit it's 45 students out of 377:
http://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2015%20Enrollment%20Audit%20Report.pdf

Less than 12%.

Even if it were 100% I don't see how it would matter. There are dozens of private schools in DC, most of them do some special ed. You don't see them looking for handouts.

This.

Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

Another PR blitz must be underway, the Lab sock puppets are back!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

Its no where near half. More like 20%.

According to the OSSE audit it's 45 students out of 377:
http://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2015%20Enrollment%20Audit%20Report.pdf

Less than 12%.

Even if it were 100% I don't see how it would matter. There are dozens of private schools in DC, most of them do some special ed. You don't see them looking for handouts.

There is no reason. Except that bowser staffers have kids that attend. And maybe the baron will attend.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

I don't know either. It's really weird like someone has a grudge against the Lab School. The area is very low density with major large land holders(Corps of Engineers, Georgetown, St Pats, GDS, OLV, Safeway, Germany embassy, park land) vs residential density.

No grudge. The neighboring dcps schools are overcrowded and want the space to move kids out of trailers. Why should dc taxpayers pay to educate mostly out of state kids?

+1 Lab is a wonderful school. But at $40K per kid per year, it can afford to get its own piece of real estate without getting a sweetheart deal from DCPS.

Is there a reason Lab should get this land as part of an "emergency" disposition of the DC Council without any process for public comment or without allowing others to bid on this land? Because the Council tried to give it away as part of an emergency procedure for a lease of 80K a year, i.e. 6.6K per month, i.e. about the same price of renting a house in Ward 3, except that this is a 50K square foot lot with a huge building on it. And DC is unlikely to receive any of this rent, because Lab can deduct any amount it puts towards renovations. So yes, some of us see non-transparent gifts of public property to private schools when public schools are overcrowded as a "problem."

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

I don't know either. It's really weird like someone has a grudge against the Lab School. The area is very low density with major large land holders(Corps of Engineers, Georgetown, St Pats, GDS, OLV, Safeway, Germany embassy, park land) vs residential density.

This is such classic Lab School-think. "The only possible reason someone could disagree with us is they don't agree with our mission." No, the neighbors want the property for their own kids. "Nobody lives there anyway." I'm sure it looks that way when you're coming in from VA and MD on Canal Road, but there's 20,000 people who live in ANC 3D. Every single school in Ward 3 is over capacity. The number one issue in Ward 3 schools is crowding. You probably don't ever visit the DC public schools forum (because it's DC and public), but go look at the 17-page thread there on crowding and then report back.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

I don't know either. It's really weird like someone has a grudge against the Lab School. The area is very low density with major large land holders(Corps of Engineers, Georgetown, St Pats, GDS, OLV, Safeway, Germany embassy, park land) vs residential density.

No grudge. The neighboring dcps schools are overcrowded and want the space to move kids out of trailers. Why should dc taxpayers pay to educate mostly out of state kids?

+1 Lab is a wonderful school. But at $40K per kid per year, it can afford to get its own piece of real estate without getting a sweetheart deal from DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

I don't know either. It's really weird like someone has a grudge against the Lab School. The area is very low density with major large land holders(Corps of Engineers, Georgetown, St Pats, GDS, OLV, Safeway, Germany embassy, park land) vs residential density.

No grudge. The neighboring dcps schools are overcrowded and want the space to move kids out of trailers. Why should dc taxpayers pay to educate mostly out of state kids?

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

Its no where near half. More like 20%.

According to the OSSE audit it's 45 students out of 377:
http://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2015%20Enrollment%20Audit%20Report.pdf

Less than 12%.

Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

I don't know either. It's really weird like someone has a grudge against the Lab School. The area is very low density with major large land holders(Corps of Engineers, Georgetown, St Pats, GDS, OLV, Safeway, Germany embassy, park land) vs residential density.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lab School is a special ed school with half of its students coming from DCPS and DC Charters.... others are private pay... still not clear on what the problem is...

Its no where near half. More like 20%.

+1 DCPS is paying full fare tuition for students to attend Lab, a 40K/year private school. Why should they get a prime piece of public school property at a subsidized rate, without a public bidding process, when schools in Ward 3 are overcrowded with trailers?