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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may not be a surprise to those who have been following this, but MCPS staff had previously been evasive about what exactly the transportation plan for regional programs will be.

But today they confirmed to the 'design team" (i.e. the advisory group who they don't actually listen to) that the current plan is that buses to the regional programs will pick students up from their local high school, meaning that students will not be able to attend regional programs unless they can drive or be driven to their local high school to catch the school bus from there (or they are lucky enough to live close enough to walk or have a workable public transit route to their high school.)

This is deeply inequitable and will leave many students behind.   But I guess at this point they're so sure it'll pass that they don't mind letting it slip that regional programs are only going to be for better-off families who can manage DIY transportation.  (And my understanding is that they and Taylor have implied to Board members that there will be reasonable access to transportation.to help get their support-- they probably figure it is too last minute for any of them to change their mind on it now.) [/quote]

That’s how it currently works for schools like Edison. They have a schedule of buses that come after school starts with kids who are in the program. Did they explicitly say that the buses would leave before local buses arrive?[/quote]

How is 8-class period arranged everyday at Edison? They are all asynchronized with MCPS bell time? When is the dismal time? SMCS magnet has 9-period, and their slides said they would keep this addition period of class for STEM magnet. How to manage transportation for STEM magnet students using the central stop model?[/quote]

There are two three-period sessions at Edison (8-10:15 and 11:35-1:50) and kids only do one or the other, so it works fine to have transportation from the high schools because they don't actually need to get to Edison until after the regular high schools start.

This would not work for regional programs on a regular full day (or longer) schedule, unless the decision was made that all high schoolers should get up and get on their neighborhood buses 20-30 minutes earlier than they currently do in order to allow enough transfer time, which IMO would be a terrible idea.[/quote]

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