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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The budget estimate is up.  News Flash - this project won't work at $185 million.  Moving the Montessori program and tearing down the Patrick Henry building is now off the table.  Thank god.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C3YTU478FFA2/$file/CIP%20Work%20Session%204%20Presentation%206-14-2021.pdf

Notably, the cost to renovate the existing CC building for Montessori: "is the equivalent of a full-stand alone elementary school project and does not fit within the target budget."  Cost estimate = $65 million for that aspect of the project alone!

Other key points:
"• Renovation of the existing ACC to support an expanded MPSA requires substantial capital investment.
• If scope associated with the MPSA program is removed from the project, the cost will be substantially closer to the budget."

But, the proposal recommends moving forward with redevelopment of the CC site using the entire $185 million budget.  An actual building plan is due by October 2021.[/quote]

Thank you for the update. Thank the Dogs that Montessori is off the table. It made no sense to anyone else but Monique and the Montessori lobby. An unnecessary expenditure, given that they already have a building.

Another idea is to build at the ATS site to accommodate the Key students who are still overcrowded, and build an immersion middle school, and move the middle school there too. The ATS site is huge and can likely accommodate both schools easily. It makes sense to have immersion schools mid-county. And it makes room for more neighborhood seats! Win.

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They should work toward merging the two elementary immersion schools and creating a preK-12 immersion campus.  If they move Claremont to Carlin Springs, they could expand there with the middle and high school seats.  Problem is, there aren't enough students in the middle and high school programs to make a stand-alone program cost-effective.  They'd still have Kenmore middle to share resources/teachers with; but they'd lose the high school resources.  Still, if APS and immersion families think immersion is so critical and important and valuable all the way through, then they should be making the investment in it to make it a full-sized program all the way through.

But in regards to the CC site and revised Montessori plans:  THANK GOD!!!! Miracles DO happen![/quote]
I'm really curious if there would be a strong pull signal for a k-8 immersion program.  I would be worried that you would not be able to take advanced math or something if you were in small program like that -- there are at most 5 classes per grade?  [/quote]

I think there would be a stronger interest in MS/HS immersion if the Key kids zoned to Discovery/Jamestown/Taylor/Glebe didn’t have to bus all the way across town to Gunston. It does make sense for option schools to be central.[/quote]

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