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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you add all the regional programs together, MCPS appears to be assuming that almost half of high school students will be in one of them.  It's nuts [/quote]

Is this true?  There's no way this is actually what's going to happen.[/quote]

30-75 per grade per program, on average each HS hosts 3 programs, so on average each HS has 30+60+75 = 165 students per grade enrolled in the regional program. For small HS like Einstein, it's about 33%. For large HS like Blair, it's about 21%.

When you have 20-30% students in magnets, it's not magnet anymore. It's honors for all. [/quote]

According to this document, they are assuming 13,000 kids traveling to regional programs, and 21,000 total kids in regional programs when you add in local kids who are in programs at their home high school, in 2031-2032 when this is fully rolled out.   There's only like 47,000 kids in current grades 4-7 who'll be in HS then (in reality it will probably be less as some drop out.)  So they are assuming 28% of kids will travel to a regional program and 45% of kids will be enrolled in a regional program.   (None of this is based on the regional programs being particularly large-- it's just that there's so darn many of them that even with relatively small program sizes, it adds up quickly.)

https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DNLJXC4F4A19/$file/Regional%20Program%20Model%20FY2027-2031%20Budget%20251120.pdf[/quote]

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