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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous]Springbrook to Whitman, avoiding highways shows 13.1 miles 34 minutes
Springbrook to WJ, avoiding highways, 10.7 miles, 30 minutes

Blake to WJ, avoiding highways, 12.9 miles, 32 minutes

Watkins Mill High School to Wootton, 10.5 miles, 30 minutes
Watkins Mill High School to QO, 6.7 miles, 20 minutes

Are those far off from what they have now:
Kennedy to Wootton, 9.4 miles, 25 minutes
Damascus to Quince Orchard, 14.8 miles, 30 minutes[/quote]

More like 50 mins during rush hours [/quote]

I agree but it's still what they have in their proposals.  So no reason why they can't add the other school combination into their proposals too.

If they're not looking into improving the schools that need the most help or access to resources.  If they can't do that, then they shouldn't even bother with major disruptions or expensive options that don't  make sense.

Besides trying to balance FARMS rates, to have schools not go over a certain FARMS rate (upper 20s) other school systems pour a lot of money into programs and initiatives focusing on the high risk initiatives.  Like ACTUALLY trying to help them improve.  Not just trying to mix up their numbers so they get diluted and not look as bad.  Maybe MCPS does that too and I'm just not aware of it.  But I don't see any of the things going on addressing the lower performing/bottom ranked schools in MCPS.[/quote]

Average FARMS in the county is something in the 40s, no?  So they'd be looking to keep a maximum closer to, say, 55% (and a minimum somewhere in the 30s) if they were to go the balancing route.

Helping low-performing schools improve would be great.  Balancing things that way might take huge chunks of funding away from the higher-performing schools and/or massively increased taxes.[/quote]

No, it's only 40 because of the extremes.  Very few schools with high FARMS rates, then balanced out by schools with really low FARMS rates, which brings it down to 40.  And part of the issue is that the extremes are grouped together in the regions.  ie NEC cluster and the schools in the Gaithersburg area.

Taking those extremes out, the average FARMS rate would be about upper 30s and consist the majority of schools except the really high and really low ones.[/quote]

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