Boundary study and kids entrolled for home school program

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Anonymous wrote:This is not TBD. At the 7/24 BOe meeting Taylor said that students enrolled in a program would get to complete the program. There is a chart included in the slides that were presented that show how long it will take to phase in all of the new programs.

Now, the reality of how they will staff, afford and transport students in the old and new at the same time has yet to be seen. The BOE keeps asking for more information in these areas.

It does feel like it’s a done deal from the meeting presentation and all decisions are made by Taylor and his design team. There is 0 input from public and BOE.

Not a done deal. Yes, Taylor and his team are putting up recommendations, which is what they're supposed to do. But there's a long way to go still. There will be public hearings on facilities and boundaries in the fall, and I'm sure the board will also hear a ton about the regional programs, as they're all tied together. The question is, if the board isn't convinced to go with Taylor's plan, will there be a viable alternate plan put forward that people can support?

I don’t hear strong objections from BOE and when they finally get to vote, everything is already decided as program capacity is tied with boundary study.

At a previous meeting, Yang had some good questions for them about transportation logistics, which they still have not addressed. And Zimmerman has asked twice now about how enough teachers would be trained for this to work. I could see issues like these and/or other budget-related questions causing some changes to the plan or reductions in scope.

That was the previous meeting. In this meeting there hardly any questions.

No, Zimmerman brought up teachers again at 7/24. The difference this time is that Taylor helped his team answer the questions. He assumes teachers will be excited to hyper specialize when in reality McPS can move teachers whenever they want to wherever they want. He blew off Zimmerman’s question about PD for teachers when they move. The program team made it seem like the whole cohort of teachers would just support each other and/or the teachers currently teaching those specialized classes would support new teachers on top of their FT teaching responsibilities.

Yang asked about transportation and the financial data for grandfathering in old programs while ramping in the new. I predict it will be the most expensive from 2027-2031 for this reason.

Also, Taylor made it obvious that the program are the purview of MCPS and the boundaries are the purview of the BOE. The BOE is asking a lot of questions about the programs because that data will determine building capacity for the boundary changes.

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Anonymous wrote:This is not TBD. At the 7/24 BOe meeting Taylor said that students enrolled in a program would get to complete the program. There is a chart included in the slides that were presented that show how long it will take to phase in all of the new programs.

Now, the reality of how they will staff, afford and transport students in the old and new at the same time has yet to be seen. The BOE keeps asking for more information in these areas.

It does feel like it’s a done deal from the meeting presentation and all decisions are made by Taylor and his design team. There is 0 input from public and BOE.

Not a done deal. Yes, Taylor and his team are putting up recommendations, which is what they're supposed to do. But there's a long way to go still. There will be public hearings on facilities and boundaries in the fall, and I'm sure the board will also hear a ton about the regional programs, as they're all tied together. The question is, if the board isn't convinced to go with Taylor's plan, will there be a viable alternate plan put forward that people can support?

I don’t hear strong objections from BOE and when they finally get to vote, everything is already decided as program capacity is tied with boundary study.

At a previous meeting, Yang had some good questions for them about transportation logistics, which they still have not addressed. And Zimmerman has asked twice now about how enough teachers would be trained for this to work. I could see issues like these and/or other budget-related questions causing some changes to the plan or reductions in scope.

That was the previous meeting. In this meeting there hardly any questions.

No, Zimmerman brought up teachers again at 7/24. The difference this time is that Taylor helped his team answer the questions. He assumes teachers will be excited to hyper specialize when in reality McPS can move teachers whenever they want to wherever they want. He blew off Zimmerman’s question about PD for teachers when they move. The program team made it seem like the whole cohort of teachers would just support each other and/or the teachers currently teaching those specialized classes would support new teachers on top of their FT teaching responsibilities.

Yang asked about transportation and the financial data for grandfathering in old programs while ramping in the new. I predict it will be the most expensive from 2027-2031 for this reason.

Also, Taylor made it obvious that the program are the purview of MCPS and the boundaries are the purview of the BOE. The BOE is asking a lot of questions about the programs because that data will determine building capacity for the boundary changes.

The programs can be the purview of the BOE if they want them to be. They don't have to defer to Central Office unless they choose to. Of course they're not going to get into all the nitty gritty execution details, but they absolutely can push back on all the high level conceptual stuff about how programs should work. They are Taylor's bosses and above the whole MCPS central office.