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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought this question was going to be more of a "how did it get this bad?"  I remember several years ago, Wootton students speaking at BOE meetings regarding the conditions. How has MCPS simply let the building just keep declining?

If someone has a brief synopsis they could provide, that would be great. Please not the "Crown vs. Wootton" debate.

My youngest graduated in 2022 so I have not been reading as much about MCPS as I should have. I am in a cluster that was supposed to benefit from Crown, but I am not in Gaithersburg. I thought Wootton was in the CIP at some point, but maybe I was confused -- or maybe they got removed? 
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Honestly it has to do with crown, as MCPS used the money to renovate Damascus and wootton to build crown (in order to conduct the county wide redistricting).  Now they have no money to renovate these schools. 
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I'm the person who asked the question about "what happened?"

So I decided to do a deep dive into MCPS CIPs over the years.  In the FY 2026 CIP Superintendent's recommendation, it states that in May 2024, the County Council's final vote on the MCPS CIP removed funding for Wootton & Magruder, including other items. So, as I understand it, it wasn't BOE that failed Wootton -- it was the County Council.   In addition, Damascus HS construction was "delayed", but not removed, in that 2024 county council vote.
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