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[quote=Anonymous]Taylor said this at the council's education committee meeting on the CIP last week. I expect he'll be repeating some of these points to the board on Thursday:

"When the two boundary studies were originally conceived, and construction was conceived for the Woodward and Crown Farm property school, those two were trying to solve problems that have shifted. The problem downcounty of having four high schools that were overcapacity, one that was abundantly overcapacity, is easily solved with the reopening of Charles Woodward High School. Wonderful. A little bit different dynamic in upcounty, where we're looking at the school campus in Gaithersburg and relieving some of that pressure because some of the population issues have shifted since it was originally conceived, and the trajectory is different than it was originally conceived. That will have to factor in to some of this conversation as we move forward. Whether it's the conversation about holding schools, or whether it's the conversation about consolidation, or whether it's the conversation about facilities, we really need to have this almost portfolio mindset of taking a look at all of the school campuses that we have, and how do we use them to the highest and best use for the students that we have right now and what we project in the future. And as that information changes, what mechanisms do we have to adjust to those changes along the way. We may realize a sharper drop in population than what we had originally conceived, or, and this would be the ideal situation, we experience a recovery in Montgomery County that's uncharacteristic of the rest of the nation, and our enrollment goes back up. How well are we conditioned to respond to either one of those scenarios, and how can we do that quickly? It's tough stuff, but that is going to be the conversation that we have, and the CIP is going to be featured prominently in those discussions because of what we have available to us and how we use it."[/quote]

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