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Our neighborhood had 3 elementary school bus routes at one time-base school, old center, new center.  Garza's list doesn't seem to address the issue nor that of AAP middle school.  Flex is like music or strings-it's extra staff for a subject.  Immersion gets extra staff for instruction plus principals use staff from the regular ed allocation.    I'd remove immersion extra staffing before I'd take away flex which is a equitable program.

IB  is a huge expense.  Each school has extra staff and pays overhead to IB.

From a program budget:
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/FY13/FY2013ProgramBudget.pdf
AP at 17 high schools =$3.43m including 2.7m of test fees and non-school based positions.  Cost if you add in the non-school based is $210 per pupil.

IB middle years was at 5 middle schools and 4 high schools and was about 870,000. 
IB at 8 high schools = $2.61m including 1.2m test fees, .1 accreditation, .2 prof dev/instructional supplies. No non-school based positions is odd.  $900 per student.

AP/IB are listed under Advanced Academic Programs  [Dr Carol Horn - this includes AAP].

Agreed.  Having eight IB schools in the county is ridiculous.  At a minimum, why not limit it to South Lakes, Marshall, one of Annandale/Stuart and one of Edison/Lee/Mount Vernon.  My bet is that Robinson parents would be happier with a full menu of AP courses and no IB.

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