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[quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the Libbey Garvey comment above. Nobody brought her up related to the McKinley situation?  The North Arlington boundary refinement vote took place in January 2015 and she wasn't on the school board then. Lander was chair during the vote, and the other members were Van Doren, Kannien, Raphael, and Sanchez. McKinley enrollment got pushed over the top when the School Board voted in January 2015 to move Tuckahoe PU 1608 (scheduled to go to Nottingham) over to McKinley instead. PU 1608 was projected to hold 93 students in 2016, which would have left trailers at Nottingham. The Nottingham PTA flipped out and began to lobby the School Board behind the scenes to move 1608 over to McKinley so they could be trailer-free. As a result, today Nottingham is under-enrolled (less than 500 students) with no trailers and two huge fields, while McKinley is pushing 740 with six trailers still on-site and no field space. McKinley parents didn't speak out as much as we should have, because everyone assumed the School Board would make their decision based on the numbers and not politics. Nobody at McKinley will ever make that mistake again.

The crux of problem is that the County Board and School Board continue to under-estimate the student population in the 22205/Westover area, while over-estimating the student population in NE Arlington (Jamestown-Nottingham-Discovery). You can make the call as to whether that is due to stupidity or $$$.[/quote]

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