Tonight's AAPAC meeting

Anonymous
Did anyone attend tonight's AAPAC meeting? I heard there were plans to work on some recommendations for the School Board's AAP study. Care to share details?
Anonymous
This is probably related (and interesting!):
http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/aapac/AAPACpresentationJan2013.pdf
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Did anyone attend tonight's AAPAC meeting? I heard there were plans to work on some recommendations for the School Board's AAP study. Care to share details?


The first half of the meeting was a presentation on World Languages. The second half of the meeting was focused on creating a list of recommendations for the scope of the study as well as the study process. The committee worked by table and then presented a summary of the ideas from their group. It was all compiled into a document. The recommendations will be provided to Sloan Presidio and Carol Horn (both in attendance last night) so they can offer FCPS staff's recommendation to the School Board at Monday's work session.
Anonymous
Video of the meeting is posted online.

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The School Board has about half a dozen advisory committees, including the Advanced Academic Programs Advisory Committee (AAPAC). FCPS recently began posting past AAPAC annual reports, meeting schedules, member names, and staff's minutes:

http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/aapac.shtml

Advisory committee meetings are open to the public under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which means that they also can be filmed. The Virginia Coalition for Open Government contains extensive information about FOIA, in case parents encounter resistance when they try to attend or film other public meetings:

http://www.opengovva.org

Below is a link to youtube, with videos from the February AAPAC meeting taken by parent observers.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFVGdykdcn1Ut...eos?view=0&flow=grid

AAPAC's agenda was reportedly structured so that the first half of the meeting was spent on foreign language instruction. AAPAC members were given 15 minutes to meet in small groups and come up with comments on what they thought the 2013 AAP Study should cover.

The scope of the 2013 AAP study will be discussed on Monday by School Board members at their Monday instruction work session, at Gatehouse. The instruction work session starts at 11 am, but the School Board web site as of Saturday 12 noon indicated that the discussion on the AAP Analysis still was scheduled to start at 1:30 pm. See below.

Louise Epstein
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