So what's the deal with the region model?

[Anonymous]

What's the status of this initiative? I thought the county council was supposed to decide whether it was approved/not approved by December. What's going on? Has there been no update or am I just out of the loop? I can't find any coherent information.

[Anonymous]

County Council has no say, Board of Education will decide.

It's a cluster-eff that will cause more traffic, require more busses and bus drivers, and still be unequitable. Since they won't be hiring qualified teachers for the special prigrams (in EACH region), it will also be poorly taught and managed

It's a bomb in the long-slow decline of MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the status of this initiative? I thought the county council was supposed to decide whether it was approved/not approved by December. What's going on? Has there been no update or am I just out of the loop? I can't find any coherent information.

The latest update was at the 11/20 BOE meeting:
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[Anonymous]

It will be voted on with the new boundaries in March. The BOE will pass it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be voted on with the new boundaries in March. The BOE will pass it.

Too bad BOE is so gullible.

Still beyond me how reducing access to existing programs helps provide more access to more students across the county.

No more consortiums (no more choice)
Artificial regional boundaries mean many students will have LESS access, not more
Meanwhile, students who really need support to become proficient still won't be able to access the curriculum in any new programs since programs assume proficiency!

Plus what PP mentioned about bussing, staffing - basically RESOURCES, which oops MCPS doesn't have and MoCo unlikely to have during the coming years.

[Anonymous]

It's a done deal.
Mr. O is "promoted" to central office to lead the detailed implementation plan. While it's a good sign that thank god there is finally one subject-matter-expert involving from now on, it's an absolute loss to Blair SMCS. And while Mr. O is SME for academic GT programs, more than 1/2 of the rest programs are designed to be CTE-oriented, and I'm wondering who will take lead on designing the art programs. The current plan to separate music and performance arts to different HSs in every region strongly indicates that CO staff has no idea what they are doing.

Yesterday during the operating budget work session, Taylor explains the additional 10 central office FTE budget for regional program planning and implementation, equivalent to 0.4 FTE to every HS. The only BOE question was from Grace Rivera-Oven, who thought these 10 FTEs were for reading specialists... So it's a done deal at BOE.

[Anonymous]

Technically the BOE (not the county council) will vote on it in March. But the BOE will rubber-stamp it, so don't expect it to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a done deal.
Mr. O is "promoted" to central office to lead the detailed implementation plan. While it's a good sign that thank god there is finally one subject-matter-expert involving from now on, it's an absolute loss to Blair SMCS. And while Mr. O is SME for academic GT programs, more than 1/2 of the rest programs are designed to be CTE-oriented, and I'm wondering who will take lead on designing the art programs. The current plan to separate music and performance arts to different HSs in every region strongly indicates that CO staff has no idea what they are doing.

Yesterday during the operating budget work session, Taylor explains the additional 10 central office FTE budget for regional program planning and implementation, equivalent to 0.4 FTE to every HS. The only BOE question was from Grace Rivera-Oven, who thought these 10 FTEs were for reading specialists... So it's a done deal at BOE.

Until Mr. O gets overruled by the higher ups, predatory bureaucrats. They going to dump him a few months in like they did with that HR hire?