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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Expanding Kenmore is only a good idea if boundaries are redrawn to bring in the families in single family homes. Otherwise it will just continue to be a school where the majority of families are economically disadvantaged.[/quote]

OR, make the additional seats the middle school immersion seats.  That opens 300 seats at Gunston.  I'm sure the Kenmore boundary can be expanded northward or eastward or northeastward, whatever it needs to, to fill-up the other 200 new seats.  But I think centralizing middle school immersion will encourage more to continue the program beyond elementary and a 500-seat expansion at Kenmore could easily and fairly quickly fill-up with just immersion.

I think this also helps to keep all the middle schools essentially the same size, since the immersion program could be made to be independent or partially independent within the larger school, giving the sense of the rest of the school being similar in size to the other middle schools.  It also opens middle seats farther in South Arlington where they'll be needed.  Hamm is still under-capacity and can take on students in the north.[/quote]

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This is the kind of thinking we need from APS. They could also build MS Arlington Tech here if they are so concerned that it needs to exist, but with busing issues and cost, I would far rather just move an existing program here and grow it to stand-alone size.[/quote]

Does anyone know - is the School Board doing any more work sessions on the CIP or just proceeding to vote out a final proposal on Thursday?  If they are just going to vote, what are they voting on, now that the CC mega-project won't work?  Are they still just going with $185 million at the Career Center without any plan of what it will result in?[/quote]

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