Lawmakers cut $16m from Malcolm X renovation

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A panel of D.C. lawmakers on Thursday voted to cut nearly $16 million from a proposed renovation of Malcolm X Elementary School, a move that schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson warned would be “detrimental” to the school’s planned partnership with Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter School.

Henderson announced the partnership as a way to avoid closing the under-enrolled elementary school in June as originally planned.

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