Some District parents called plans to relocate Duke Ellington School for the Arts, revise the academic program at Hardy Middle School and remove its principal, the dawn of education apartheid. That’s an exaggeration. But there are racial elements in the quiet fight over schools west of Rock Creek Park.

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