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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Key No Moves Data Dude* is running for school board and has signed a letter asking the SB to not move on the move. Here's some of it:

We write today representing a larger group of concerned parents of Arlington Public School (APS) students.  Like hundreds of other parents, I urge you not to take further action on the Superintendent’s recommendations for school moves, which is scheduled for a full Board vote on February 6, 2020. The Superintendent’s proposal seeks to move both option and neighborhood schools, resulting in the relocation of thousands of APS elementary school students, ahead of a planned boundary change for elementary schools across Arlington in 2020. While the proposal is phrased as a “pre-boundary phase,” it is, in reality, a boundary change both because of the number of students moved and because the moves will require boundaries to be changed.  In fact, the proposal to move schools has been presented side-by-side with a proposal that does not move schools, but changes boundaries. And because this pre-boundary phrase has not complied with the boundary phase process codified in Arlington School Board Policy B-2.1

*I think this name is descriptive without being disparaging. Also, I'm not using his  name but guess that would be ok since he's running for office. [/quote]

I guess he missed that his own proposals would reassign half of McKinley's current students, while moving McKinley to Reed [b]allows three-quarters of its students to stay together.[/b][/quote]

Who ever said 3/4 would stay together?  I've never seen that.  [/quote]

The staff's 11/26 spreadsheet has hypothetical school assignments that would send at least 595 current McKinley students to Reed. That's out of 782 current McKinley students, so 76% moving together. The same spreadsheet also suggests that even more current McKinley PUs may be assigned or at least grandfathered to Reed as well.[/quote]

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