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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What school is the easy money for where they will move Spanish immersion?  Carlin Springs?  ATS?  Barcroft?[/quote]

I don’t k ow, but Goldstein was pretty clear he wants an option program in NW Arlington, but centrally located NW Arlington.  $5 says he’s privately pushing (again) for it to be Nottingham.[/quote]

An option program in NW makes little sense unless you want to make it inaccessible to South Arlington residents.

If there are too many seats in NW, the new school — Reed — should be an option school. Then you don’t have to disrupt everyone around it in re-drawing boundaries. It is certainly a better location for an option school than Nottingham. [/quote]
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I agree, but wash “they promised” reed wouldn’t be an option School. So much better not to move everyone around. [/quote][/b]

APS and the School Board have promised many things over the last two years that never happened.  Not sure why Reed-- which is the obvious, least disruptive location for an option school-- should be untouchable. [/quote]
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There was a formal board resolution that Reed would be neighborhood.  They can’t just change course on a dime, they’d have to pass another formal board resolution with community participation, etc.[/quote][/b]
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Where is the rule that community participation has to be part of a Board resolution?  And what community?  Who's to say that THE greater community would not support a new resolution?[/quote][/b]

Yeah, where was the "formal Board" resolution when APS announced that it was moving immersion to an already-established neighborhood school?  That all went down at last year's August work-session meeting and APS, with the Board's tacit approval, said moving programs to different buildings did NOT require School Board action.  So fine, Reed can open as a "neighborhood" school and then APS can move whatever it wants in there.

FYI, I don't really believe that APS has that kind of authority, i.e., as we've seen, APS has had to walk back its silly "swap" decision but I don't recall at any point the School Board or APS stating that APS was just wrong when it announced that Murphy had the unilateral power to move schools.  So there shouldn't be any reason to assume Reed is safe.  APS and the School Board will try to get away with whatever they can, however they can.[/quote]

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