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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing I wonder about is how you can figure out the impacts of new programs on capacity anyway if you don't know which schools the kids applying will be from?  It works fine if you assume an equal number applying from each school, but if you assume that and then some schools send many fewer kids than others, they will end up more crowded and the schools that send more kids will have lower enrollment.[/quote]

Programs may have just 30 kids( like Wheatons programs where it started). So it may not change capacity utilization much if 20 attend instead of 30.[/quote]

Many of these 30 students are coming from four other schools within the same region. The number would vary each year based on interest and admission criteria.  It makes no sense to add at least 4 more buses, and possibly more, depending on the size of the region, just to accommodate them. Many high school regions are geographically large, so one bus per high school isn’t realistic.

On top of that, if there’s going to be a program at each high school, then the region would need to run multiple buses between schools—essentially setting up a network of routes. That means every pair of schools potentially needs its own transportation plan.

This doesn’t look like a cost-saving solution at all. In fact, it sounds like a logistical and budgetary burden. I’m not convinced the design team for this regional program has actually run the numbers. From a transportation standpoint alone, the plan seems inefficient and expensive.

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How many buses are there for Blair and RMIB magnet?  If it's more than 4 per program, I can see how 6 shorter bus rides would be more economical than 5 longer bus rides.  But, if they put two programs in per region, I don't see the cost savings vs what they are doing now.[/quote]

They’re saying each region will have multiple programs and each school will have a program in the presentation. 
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II wonder about the number of  involuntary teacher transfers that may occur with new programs and relocated programs.[/quote]

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