Facilities preferences

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FOCUS & Coalition defeat attempts to eliminate facilities preferences

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FOCUS & Coalition defeat attempts to eliminate facilities preferences.

Although the School Reform Act of 1995 gave preference to charters for acquiring excess space in the facilities inventory of District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), the law did not define what it meant by "preference." This language has since been strengthened twice, first by the DC Council to read "first preference," and then by the U.S. Congress to read "right of first offer." The current law requires that charter schools be given first opportunity to bid to lease, at below-market rates, either empty DCPS school buildings or unused space within a DCPS school building that is not operating at full capacity.

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