Woodward Boundary Study discussion at next BoE meeting

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And what exactly are their lawyers going to do? It isn't illegal to redistrict those schools, and those parents may have purchased homes zoned for those schools at the time, but they did not purchase admission those schools themselves as they are public schools, not private schools.

The lawyers won't have any skin in the argument, especially because all counties in Maryland are under a lot of pressure to redistrict schools right now. The state isn't going to hand over more money for new school construction or expansion until seats are filled. The lawyers are going to lose, just like they did a few years ago when it came to the lawsuit against magnet programs lol.

It doesn't mean the lawsuits didn't have merit. It just means MCPS played the covid card, had $11M(?) in attorney's, and questionable relationships.

I read that Erlich is requesting a 10% increase in property taxes for "education"?

I'd love to look at the details of that budget. I'm sure that all sorts of goodies will be in there.

The law passed in 2020 says that any changes to property taxes require a unanimous vote from the county council, but apparently, he can sneak this through by using some loophole that is supposed only to cover school maintenance. It sounds illegal to me, but others seem to think he can get away with it.

I would MPIA the heck out of the MCPS budget to see where all the sugar goes.

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Anonymous wrote:Indeed! Esp the “B-CC is not going to be in that study” fans.

But it's at the top of the list even and since it will be adjacent to Woodward it's a done deal.

What does that even mean? Woodward does not have any boundaries yet, so no school can be adjacent until the boundaries are drawn and redrawn.

I think it means given BCC's proximity to Woodward. It's at the very top of the list of schools that will be affected by its opening.

The list is alphabetical.

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Anonymous wrote:Indeed! Esp the “B-CC is not going to be in that study” fans.

But it's at the top of the list even and since it will be adjacent to Woodward it's a done deal.

What does that even mean? Woodward does not have any boundaries yet, so no school can be adjacent until the boundaries are drawn and redrawn.

I think it means given BCC's proximity to Woodward. It's at the very top of the list of schools that will be affected by its opening.

The "list" is in alphabetical order, and BCC is at the top because it begins with B. But obviously WJ is the school that will be most affected by Woodward's opening.

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I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Indeed! Esp the “B-CC is not going to be in that study” fans.

But it's at the top of the list even and since it will be adjacent to Woodward it's a done deal.

What does that even mean? Woodward does not have any boundaries yet, so no school can be adjacent until the boundaries are drawn and redrawn.

I think it means given BCC's proximity to Woodward. It's at the very top of the list of schools that will be affected by its opening.

The list is alphabetical.

It may look like that but it's really priority!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Both. It means elementary boundaries will stay as they are now. But MS and HS boundaries could change.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

Yes. I think they will try to move entire elementary school zones to different MS and HS zones when they can, but they may not always be able to, given different building capacities.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

We kind of have to accept that or massive overcrowding in some areas and underutilization in others.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

Yes. I think they will try to move entire elementary school zones to different MS and HS zones when they can, but they may not always be able to, given different building capacities.

I would expect 90% of assignments to remain the same based on the different models they released from the study that was done around 2020.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

Yes. I think they will try to move entire elementary school zones to different MS and HS zones when they can, but they may not always be able to, given different building capacities.

I would expect 90% of assignments to remain the same based on the different models they released from the study that was done around 2020.

But they weren't factoring in the opening of Woodward and Crown then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

DP. For example, it's a pretty solid bet that both Luxmanor and Garrett Park will be reassigned from WJ to Woodward. But there's also an island assignment for Kensington-Parkwood that is directly south of Woodward, so that piece is also likely to be reassigned, but the rest of KP could still remain at WJ, or be reassigned somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

Yes. I think they will try to move entire elementary school zones to different MS and HS zones when they can, but they may not always be able to, given different building capacities.

I would expect 90% of assignments to remain the same based on the different models they released from the study that was done around 2020.

But they weren't factoring in the opening of Woodward and Crown then.

I'm guessing the closer your home school is to say Woodward or Crown the greater the change so nearby schools like WJ or BCC would be more affected than ones that are further away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

Yes. I think they will try to move entire elementary school zones to different MS and HS zones when they can, but they may not always be able to, given different building capacities.

I would expect 90% of assignments to remain the same based on the different models they released from the study that was done around 2020.

But they weren't factoring in the opening of Woodward and Crown then.

I'm guessing the closer your home school is to say Woodward or Crown the greater the change so nearby schools like WJ or BCC would be more affected than ones that are further away.

Proximity is one of the four factors under consideration, yes.

But it depends on one's definition of "nearby" to Woodward.

Walter Johnson - 1 mile
Wheaton - 4.1 miles
Einstein - 4.4 miles
Whitman - 4.5 miles
B-CC - 4.6 miles
Kennedy - 5.9 miles
Blair - 8.5 miles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what it means that they're not considering elementary school boundaries. Does this mean that they could tweak MS/HS boundaries and leave elementaries with split articulations? Or does it mean that they will change the assignments for entire elementaries to different MS/HS? Or some of both?

Sounds like it means nobody will be reassigned to a different elementary as a result of this process. But where those elementaries feed into can be changed including split articulations.

DP. For example, it's a pretty solid bet that both Luxmanor and Garrett Park will be reassigned from WJ to Woodward. But there's also an island assignment for Kensington-Parkwood that is directly south of Woodward, so that piece is also likely to be reassigned, but the rest of KP could still remain at WJ, or be reassigned somewhere else.

Don't forget Farmland in the probable Woodward list! It's a perfect time to adjust the KP island on Tuckerman, but doesn't the "no ES changes" mean that they can't do it for ES, only when they would switch to Tilden?