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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nothing in the proposed COSA policy that impacts the CAP feeder pattern as described on the MCPS site:

The Communication Arts Program (CAP) at Montgomery Blair HS is an application-only program. Current Grade 8 students living in the Downcounty Consortium (DCC) attendance area as well as those students who attend a DCC feeder middle school on approved change of school assignment (transfer) may apply. For further information, contact Montgomery Blair HS.

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This is an excerpt of a longer email on this topic that was posted to the Eastern listserv by Michelle Gluck, MCCPTA Gifted Comm., based, she said, on conversations she had with MCPS.  The bottom line is that it is not clear Eastern and TPMS non-DCC magnet students will continue to be permitted to apply to CAP.  I have only excerpted the part that pertains to the non-DCC CAP application issue.

"What is not clear is whether non-DCC students attending countywide magnet programs at DCC middle schools (Eastern and Takoma Park) will continue to be granted DCC status for purposes of applying to the Blair CAP. The CAP is not a county-wide magnet program, but is limited to students in the DCC.  Blair interprets students in the DCC to include "students who attend a DCC feeder middle school on approved change of school assignment," namely, the EMS/TPMS out of boundary magnet populations (for the most part). I note two reasons this existing statement of eligibility may not be controlling going forward if the changes to Policy JEE are finalized:

(1)  The statement was written under the existing policy, when articulation eligibility was automatic.  As it stands now, I believe EMS students can articulate to any DCC high school whether or not they apply to an application-controlled program.  Blair was not making any exceptions for the CAP by inviting such students to apply.

(2)  MCPS policy as enacted by the BOE, not Blair, controls whether students receive a COSA.  Therefore, regardless of what Blair wants or intends, MCPS could determine that the BOE policy change trumps the previous practice.

I have been told that DCCAPS asked for an explicit exception for the CAP program, was expecting more explicit language preserving the articulation pattern to the CAP, and is concerned that the draft language as it exists is too vague to protect access to the CAP for EMS/TPMS out of boundary magnet students.

I suggest, therefore, that parents who want the existing articulation pattern to the CAP to be preserved should take advantage of the public comment period and contact the BOE before the matter comes up for a vote in September, asking for more explicit language or clarification."[/quote]

She's just speculating like anyone else.  The language of the proposal as it s written has no impact on CAP or other programs it simply states that COSAS have to be applied for and are not automatic.  When you apply to CAP as a non-resident of DCC but go to Eastern there is no basis to reject the application.  COSAs have no bearing on this at all unless MCPS changes the application criteria.[/quote]

This is what they said about the RCF-Westland-BCC track too.[/quote]

Same thing, nothing says you can't continue the track.  I would imagine these COSAS will get approved. [/quote]

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