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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From following this whole thing way too closely, I'm getting the impression that staff have two main objectives in school location:

1. Get an option school in the western corner of the county - apparently Nottingham is now the frontrunner.
2. Turn Key into a neighborhood school.

If they can't get these two things to happen, they will have to draw very strange and stringy neighborhood boundary lines. I think they would just switch them if they weren't concerned about getting native Spanish speakers to sign up to go to Nottingham. [/quote]

I think this is correct.  This has certiainly been my impression, also from following it way to closely.  Those are the motivating factors- the excess seats in the West when Reed comes on line, and the seat deficit in the East (where Key is).  But they are trying to come up with criteria and be disciplined about the whole thing- they are trying to make sure they are not accidently missing something.  [/quote]

So then what do you think the potential moves are? I can't imagine they will actually move more than two schools because of the cost. [/quote]

I think Immersion to ATS and ATS to Nottingham. ATS has the longest wait list, so it is the most likely to fill up no matter where it is actually placed in the county.[/quote]

But are they adding on to the ATS building? Because there are over 700 students at Key now, and I think the majority would follow the school. I thin it would be bad to move a bigger school into a smaller building, right? Don't they need a closer match? [/quote]

Apparently ATS can grow to 750 with trailers per the reports and the site is more accessible to Spanish speakers than ASFS or Nottingham. [/quote]

Growing ATS or any option school to 750 gradually and as needed is different than moving a program from a building that mostly houses your school into a field of trailers overnight. [/quote]

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