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[quote=Anonymous]I am not sure what happened at RMIB with Ms. Hoover but there have been rumblings in MCPS to increase access to magnet programs.  If they focus primarily on increasing awareness about these programs and improving academic performance (especially in Math) in all schools so more kids are able to qualify that would be fantastic and program administrators like Ms. Hoover would I imagine be thrilled to have an incoming magnet class full of lots of different kinds of kids.  The problem is that it would be very difficult for MCPS to close the achievement gap this way, it is much easier to lower the admission standards but this inevitably leads to the programs themselves getting watered down.  I wonder whether Ms. Hoover tried to push back against such efforts.
The last time, MCPS tried to mess with the HS magnet programs in a big way was back in 2008 when they cut funding.  This meant that at Blair for example, teacher no longer had the time to work on course design and collaboration during school time.  Luckily for the students, the teachers are incredibly devoted to the kids and the programs and are willing to spend a lot of their personal time during the school year and the summer to try to make up for this but the program has suffered and there are fewer opportunities for collaboration and innovation.  The program administrator tried to stick up for his teachers and the program and he was "reassigned" to an elementary school.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201834.html[/quote]

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