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[quote=Anonymous]Based on the Dec. 17 meeting, boundaries for the new Hyattsville-area elementary school will not be formally proposed/released until the PGCPS CEO's recommendation is official presented on Jan. 17. There will be a public hearing on the recommendations on Feb. 4, and the Board of Education is slated to vote on boundary changes on Feb. 13.

The naming process is expected to take place in Spring 2014  after the boundary area is official.

The new school is proposed to have a Creative and Performing Arts theme, which means a specialty program that is open to in-boundary students only (as opposed to the lottery-based specialty programs).

Also mentioned was a proposal for three Spanish-immersion specialty programs. These would be lottery based and the proposed sites are Cesar Chavez ES, P.E. Williams ES, and Overlook Elementary. The immersion programs might be phased in starting with kindergarten, which would allow existing students to continue through the elementary school until immersion is fully phased in.

Final item was sixth grade to middle transition. Five schools were mentioned as likely to see their sixth grades shift to middle school for SY2014-15: Barack Obama (to James Madison and Kettering); Chillum (to Nicholas Orem and Hyattsville Middle); Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (to Buck Lodge); Mattaponi (to Gwynn Park): and Thomas Stone (to Hyattsville Middle). In some of these cases, such as Hyattsville Middle, the overcrowding at the elementary level is so great that PGCPS feels the only solution is to add seats at an already overcrowded middle school. There was mention of the need for facility expansion/construction, but that the CIP process does not move quickly.

The PowerPoint files for the public meetings should be posted here: http://www1.pgcps.org/pasb/index.aspx?id=153333 (the Spanish link has the PPT file up; the English one is currently the meeting announcement, not a PPT)

Comments can be made online at http://www1.pgcps.org/pasb/[/quote]

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