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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Maryland Blueprint for Education wants kids in job training programs, not in arts and humanities classes. MCPS is on a deadline to get half of the student body into an apprenticeship or credentialing program.

"The Blueprint sets a goal for 45% of high school graduates completing an apprenticeship or an industry-recognized occupational credential by the 2030-2031 school year.”
https://blueprint.marylandpublicschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/10/CCRReportSummer2022.pdf

Look at the list of state approved industry credentials. This is what Maryland wants for 45% of students. 
https://marylandpublicschools.org/about/Pages/approved-credentials.aspx

Most of the “new” programs MCPS is proposing are the CTE programs a lot of schools already have. By turning them into magnets, MCPS is trying to get more students into them and make sure they finish all the classes instead of deciding to take other electives instead. https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/career-readiness/plans/hs-plans/

If a program is interest-based in the new proposal, it’s probably it’s a Blueprint-aligned CTE program and MCPS wants as many kids as possible in the pathway so they can meet the Blueprint goal.

Programs are criteria based for one of two reasons:

1) To limit the number of kids in magnets that don’t align with Blueprint mandates.
2) To make sure the kids in Blueprint-aligned programs like IB and the SMCS magnets complete the program. The Blueprint only cares about program completion, not how many kids take program related courses.

Welcome to the future of public education in Maryland, where only the most privileged kids get access to advanced academic programs, everyone else gets redirected to job-training programs.
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What’s the basis that 45% students have to be in these job training programs?  This has to be interest based rather than arbitrary goals
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