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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Starting cuts:

- AAP centers and associated multi-million dollar transportation apparatus. Students currently attending can finish their time through 6th grade at ES. No new admissions. All ES have local programs to meet this need. The cost is redundancy in transportation and staffing cost is INSANE when there is no longer a reason for ES centers to exist now that all schools have it. A poster above referenced "Nice white parents". This budget item is your posterchild and I won't be able to respect any FCPS budget until it's removed.

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As an AAP parent I also agree with this. Our local school is one of the ones labelled as "off track". It's pretty clear they are off track because a big portion of our SOL-aged population goes to the local AAP center. I would argue that getting rid of the centers is important for not only $ reasons, but it is vital that all neighborhood ESs are educating their own students and have a vibrant cross-section of all students. Having a brain drain in patches all over the system is just going to perpetuate the notion that ESs that sit right next to each other on a map are inherently of mixed quality, when in actuality this is simply determined by one being a center and one not being a center. Makes no sense and FCPS is going to have failing schools through no fault of the schools until they address it. [/quote]

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