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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They did it at King Farm too. When all these new developments are built, the developers set aside the land for an elementary school like they are supposed to and advertise to potential buyers about the new school planned to be built but then it never happens.[/quote]

It's not all the developers' fault.  The county planning commission and developers can set aside land for new school construction, but if MCPS doesn't choose to build anything, or the county doesn't approve construction, it won't get built.  The whole process to approve and build a new school is sooooooo long that kids graduate from school and the parents give up.  It's almost by design...[/quote]

What exactly would the design be? That if they wait long enough, all of the kids go away, and the school is no longer necessary? That's obviously not the reality.

MCPS does not have enough money for school construction and modernization. That's the reality.[/quote]

But the county still allows developers to build to increase numbers?  Why is that?[/quote]

The Planning Board and the County Council allow developers to build. It's not a MCPS decision.

Also, there is a development moratorium when enrollment is projected to exceed 120% of school capacity in the next 5 years. MCPS says that the Northwood, Gaithersburg, Einstein, and Wheaton clusters are projected to go over.

http://www.gazette.net/article/20141031/NEWS/141039752/-1/montgomery-school-officials-say-development&template=gazette[/quote]

Except at the elementary level, they look to see if the average of elementary capacity in the cluster is overcapacity by 120%. So you could have one very overcapacity school with lots of new construction because neighboring schools are under-capacity. [/quote]

Exactly.  And then MCPS doesn't redistrict, so that one overburdened school stays overburdened and remains vulnerable to influxes from new development.[/quote]

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