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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the latest in the boundary studies? No more CAP at Blair when Woodward opens? Which ES boundaries are expected to change. Please post info or link to recent updates.[/quote]

There are no recent updates. The latest timeline has Woodward opening in Fall 2027, and the boundary study happening in 2026. Currently there are no elementary schools included in the scope, only middle and high schools. [/quote]

Woodward is where CAP is headed. One of the reasons that Woodward's reopening was green-lighted was to relieve chronic overcrowding in the DCC, not just pacify westside parents concerned with a few portables at Walter Johnson. (That would have looked too unfair, right?)

Blair is overenrolled and one way to relieve its overcrowding is to take a reliably consistent number of students (CAP cohorts = 75 students per year) and move it to Woodward, once Woodward reopens.

A faux study will be conducted to determine if this is a good idea, but it will turn out to be a good idea.

Takoma Park parents, you better start organizing now - maybe if you push really hard for a persistent amount of time, you can change things.

Here's a link referencing the issue. Don't let the word salad injection about Northwood HS overcrowding deceive you. How would you pull a cohort from any of the DCC HS geographical catchment areas to attend Woodward? You couldn't guarantee the numbers. It's going to be Blair's CAP:

https://moco360.media/2023/02/28/burtonsville-elementary-to-relocate-woodward-high-opening-planned-for-2026-school-board-says/#:~:text=Woodward%20High%20School.,schools%20in%20the%20Downcounty%20Consortium.

The school board then discussed the boundary scope for the reopening of Charles W. Woodward High School. Funds were approved to reopen the school to address crowding at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda and high schools in the Downcounty Consortium.

“This [project] is related to not only the opening of the new Woodward, which is currently under construction, but also the rebuilding and expansion of Northwood [High School]. So, with that added capacity, it is necessitating the need to go through a boundary study process,” Adams said.

Funds were also approved for a facility upgrade and expansion of Silver Spring’s Northwood High School. [/quote]

[b]Again, other than your interpretation, what’s the evidence moving CAP is under consideration? [/b]Is there anything in the minutes of a school board meeting, for instance?

The linked article only discusses boundary studies, with no mention of special programs—which. as a PP correctly noted—are not part of the boundary study’s parameters. [/quote]

DP. The PP made it up out of a desire to monger rumors anonymously on the internet.[/quote]

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