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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tonight's meeting at Ashburton on this issue had approximately 200 people there.  The consultant report identifying potential sites seemed to be a complete waste of time and money.

Bottom line - Rec to the Superintendent will be to put an addition on Westbrook to build it to the 740 student standard; rezone between Somerset and Westbrook; build another addition on Bethesda ES, and propose a new ES to serve overflow from both BCC and WJ clusters.

Honestly, I can't imagine the "Joint ES" situation working out very well, unless they redistribute a lot of kids like dominoes from Bethesda ES and throughout the whole WJ cluster.  [/quote]

How would Westbrook/Somerset be split?  Would Kenwood and Friendship Heights be rezoned to Westbrook?  I feel like all of Chevy Chase east of Wisconsin should go to Chevy Chase ES.  Has this been discussed?  [/quote]

It’s hard to move kids into CCES because of the CC-RHPS-NCC pairing.  One of the parameters of this capacity study was not to mess with the pairing.[/quote]

It's just a tweak around the edges.  If you put all of Chevy Chase east of Wisconsin into Rosemary Hills/CCES, that would allow all of the apartments around Rosemary Hills to go to NCC instead of CCES.  [/quote]

Just based on my sense of where the kids are coming from, my guess would be that all of Kenwood moves to Westbrook and Friendship Heights is split between Westbrook and Somerset. There aren't a ton of kids coming to Somerset from Kenwood, but too many FH kids to move the entire group to one school or the other and keep it balanced. It seems like it could happen pretty quickly and easily, since Westbrook is undersubscribed and the distance to the Westbrook isn't much different than the distance to Somerset.[/quote]

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