FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a BRAC meeting tonight. Will see what comes out of it! I do feel like they post content fairly quick

How do we attend the BRAC meeting? FOIA requires those meetings to be open, right?

No, those meetings are closed to the public.

What?! That’s a clear violation of FOIA.

Umm, no it isn't.

McDaniel said school board created BRAC. It falls under FOIA as a result.

These meetings must be open by law.

Tell you what, why don't you go to the meeting tomorrow and report back to us on how they let you in and what they talked about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a BRAC meeting tonight. Will see what comes out of it! I do feel like they post content fairly quick

How do we attend the BRAC meeting? FOIA requires those meetings to be open, right?

They’ve all been closed thus far. They do post the materials afterwards though no recordings.

I’m sure content from tonight will be FOIA requested if posted materials do not suffice. Times are spicy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a BRAC meeting tonight. Will see what comes out of it! I do feel like they post content fairly quick

How do we attend the BRAC meeting? FOIA requires those meetings to be open, right?

No, those meetings are closed to the public.

What?! That’s a clear violation of FOIA.

Umm, no it isn't.

McDaniel said school board created BRAC. It falls under FOIA as a result.

These meetings must be open by law.

Tell you what, why don't you go to the meeting tomorrow and report back to us on how they let you in and what they talked about.

I mean, defending fcps when they seem to be breaking FOIA laws is a new low, even for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a BRAC meeting tonight. Will see what comes out of it! I do feel like they post content fairly quick

How do we attend the BRAC meeting? FOIA requires those meetings to be open, right?

They’ve all been closed thus far. They do post the materials afterwards though no recordings.

I’m sure content from tonight will be FOIA requested if posted materials do not suffice. Times are spicy

Yeah, but from a plain reading of FOIA these meetings are supposed to be open to the public.

[Anonymous]

So all those Herndon kids transferring to South Lakes for IB should be graduating with fulll IB diplomas right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So all those Herndon kids transferring to South Lakes for IB should be graduating with fulll IB diplomas right?

That’s not how it’s worked for a long time. Maybe it should be different. But not every Langley kid transferring to South Lakes or Marshall gets an IB diploma, either.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, but from a plain reading of FOIA these meetings are supposed to be open to the public.

Does anyone remember the details from a few years ago when SB members were plotting through email? They got FOIA'd and their true colors showed. I think deliberations are supposed to be public.

Seems to me that this process is illegal.

[Anonymous]

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Yeah, but from a plain reading of FOIA these meetings are supposed to be open to the public.

Does anyone remember the details from a few years ago when SB members were plotting through email? They got FOIA'd and their true colors showed. I think deliberations are supposed to be public.

Seems to me that this process is illegal.

Let’s say it’s legal. It was still deliberately structured to reduce transparency. Given that they’ve also stacked the BRAC with partisan hacks like Hall it stinks to high heaven regardless of whether they’ve exploited a legal loophole. Reid should be ashamed (and replaced).

[Anonymous]

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Yeah, but from a plain reading of FOIA these meetings are supposed to be open to the public.

Does anyone remember the details from a few years ago when SB members were plotting through email? They got FOIA'd and their true colors showed. I think deliberations are supposed to be public.

Seems to me that this process is illegal.

Let’s say it’s legal. It was still deliberately structured to reduce transparency. Given that they’ve also stacked the BRAC with partisan hacks like Hall it stinks to high heaven regardless of whether they’ve exploited a legal loophole. Reid should be ashamed (and replaced).

Agree with all that, but I am fairly certain it is not legal under FOIA.

[Anonymous]

And the teachers' unions have a total of SIX reps on the committee.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So all those Herndon kids transferring to South Lakes for IB should be graduating with fulll IB diplomas right?

That’s not how it’s worked for a long time. Maybe it should be different. But not every Langley kid transferring to South Lakes or Marshall gets an IB diploma, either.

That’s how it should work. Get rid of IB. Bring everyone back to home schools. And then assess how crowded schools really are. You shouldn’t allow 300 currently zoned kids to leave Herndon or Lewis or whatever school and then move in other areas to fill their spots.

[Anonymous]

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SLHS test scores improved after the boundary change 20 years ago but I have never seen anything that shows that the scores for the FARMs or ELL kids have actually improved or if the improvement is because of the few hundred kids moved from other schools into SLHS. I suspect tha latter.

At the expense of another high school.

Many of the kids move from Oakton, I don’t think there was much damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So all those Herndon kids transferring to South Lakes for IB should be graduating with fulll IB diplomas right?

They should

But they just have to take a couple of IB (or AP in the case of IB to AP) over the course of their high school career.

It is a wink, wink way to get out od a poor performing school

Whether you think that is bad or good probably depends on whether your kid is at risk of getting rezoned to backfill those IB/AP transfers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So all those Herndon kids transferring to South Lakes for IB should be graduating with fulll IB diplomas right?

They should

But they just have to take a couple of IB (or AP in the case of IB to AP) over the course of their high school career.

It is a wink, wink way to get out od a poor performing school

Whether you think that is bad or good probably depends on whether your kid is at risk of getting rezoned to backfill those IB/AP transfers.

What's to stop the kids who get redistricted into a new school with IB from transfering back to what would have been their home HS for the AP program?

[Anonymous]

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SLHS test scores improved after the boundary change 20 years ago but I have never seen anything that shows that the scores for the FARMs or ELL kids have actually improved or if the improvement is because of the few hundred kids moved from other schools into SLHS. I suspect tha latter.

At the expense of another high school.

Many of the kids move from Oakton, I don’t think there was much damage.

I was speaking of another school. Hu