Board of Education Update: October 25, 2024

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Boundary Study Update
The Request for Proposals (RFP) process for the Charles W. Woodward High School and Crown High School boundary studies has been extended. We will keep you updated throughout the process.

Any comments?

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Update me

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Anonymous wrote:Boundary Study Update
The Request for Proposals (RFP) process for the Charles W. Woodward High School and Crown High School boundary studies has been extended. We will keep you updated throughout the process.

Any comments?

What is your question? They extended the due date of the RFP to October 31.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/procurement/uploads/4998.1/RFP%204998.1%20Erratum%204.pdf

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Comments. Stop wasting education money with these studies and just make a decision.

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Anyone? What happens next?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone? What happens next?

There are public hearings next week, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm.

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Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

With the addition of Crown and Woodward, I think Kensington and Bethesda schools and neighborhoods will have plenty of space to move kids around without unreasonable busing as a solution.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.

Einstein's overcrowding will be eased by the opening of Woodward and the expansion of Northwood, which will ease pressure on the DCC.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

They might have worked that if they had built a new HS inside the beltway in the SS/TKPK area. But they eschewed that in favor of Woodward, promising that that would help ease DCC overcrowding, and then have been walking that help for the DCC back bit by bit ever since.

Unless they move DCC feeder ES's to pyramids to the west in cascading fashion or add the BCC pyramid (and maybe one or more of the Woodward/Whitman/WJ pyramids) to some modified consortium construct, the overcrowding of DCC schools will continue.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

How would that work when Einstein is overcrowded and already have portables. In some classes the kids don’t have desks or chairs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.

Einstein's overcrowding will be eased by the opening of Woodward and the expansion of Northwood, which will ease pressure on the DCC.

Northwood is not enough.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

They might have worked that if they had built a new HS inside the beltway in the SS/TKPK area. But they eschewed that in favor of Woodward, promising that that would help ease DCC overcrowding, and then have been walking that help for the DCC back bit by bit ever since.

Unless they move DCC feeder ES's to pyramids to the west in cascading fashion or add the BCC pyramid (and maybe one or more of the Woodward/Whitman/WJ pyramids) to some modified consortium construct, the overcrowding of DCC schools will continue.

I think that's exactly what they will do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think they can work it to minimize all the cross-county busing from places like Kensington to WJ or BCC? It would be nice if kids could attend their neighborhood school like Einstein.

I'm fairly confident there will be at least one option presented which would reassign more of Kensington to Einstein. How they would manage to do that while also solving Einstein's overcrowding is anyone's guess until we see the options sometime next year.

They need to tear down Einstein and expand it.