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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At DCC meeting today they answered questions about lack of public feedback by saying that the proposal was prepared for the Board, and they are now getting the feedback from the public. They reassured that no current local program will be eliminated but dodged questions about whether the programs will be effectively weakened and interest will then lack due to new programs structure. [/quote]

When asked about Einstein's program, they noted that the shifts could mean fewer students and that that could create some issues for the school/programs, but didn't elaborate.  We are left to pull from that that fewer students = fewer resources = fewer class.options...with no differential central support to make up for that.  I'd guess that would go for things across the board -- VAC (becoming regional instead of countywide), VAPA (becoming local without the DCC-wide pull, and with the regional performing arts placed at Northwood, with its new facility, resulting in even Einstein-catchment students trying to head to another school) and the IB Diploma Programme (with more peeling off for the regional at BCC than had been peeling off to RMIB and Kennedy, combines, and with no consortium-choice draw to maintain numbers).[/quote]

VAPA is not a DCC-wide program. It is an "academy" that any student who goes to Einstein can participate in.[/quote]

And kids from the whole DCC choose Einstein to participate in VAPA. Just like kids from the whole DCC choose Wheaton for the engineering academy (not the magnet - Wheaton has to engineering tracks). Cutting off choice effects enrollment in the DCC schools. Some “local” programs won’t be allowed to accept out-of-boundary students anymore. That will lead to cuts for those programs. [/quote]

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