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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This subject is brought up every year. The schedule never changes. Move on.[/quote]

If the 2014 group had said the same thing, they would've never been able to make it happen. If you don't care to make the change, you move on.[/quote]

The 2014 group was trying to get the start time moved to substantially later, and after a comprehensive study that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, only managed to move it 20 minutes.

I would not support reopening this question unless someone can explain what has changed since the last time MCPS tackled this issue. If there has been a material change in the situation, let's evaluate. But if all of the factors are functionally the same, it's not worth the money. [/quote]
This is the perfect time to return to this conversation. We’re about to change boundaries, grading policy, and special programs. Under the new plan, bus rides to special programs will be shorter. We don’t know yet how bus ridership will change with new boundaries. Once these changes are rolled out, we ought to find out if the priorities of MCPS’s stakeholders have changed. Enough years will have passed since the last study that MCPS largely won’t be serving the same families. The old data will be obsolete. That doesn’t mean that the results of a new study would be different, but enough things will have changed that the old study won’t be relevant.[/quote]

Great. It will take MCPS 2-4 years to run the survey, get public comment on the survey and develop an action plan. By which time, a good chunk of key stakeholders will inevitably have turned over/left the system, which will inevitably stall progress on the plan and result in the status quo remaining.

You want to spend money again on that same outcome?[/quote]

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