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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the BOE votes yes, it’s a vote to hurt Brown Stations ES https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/[/quote]

They really didn’t focus on how these last minute changes harmed Brown as well as Wheaton Woods. They weren’t giving us real proposals during the process just soliciting feedback, then showing their true hand at the end. I don’t think that is the way it should work.[/quote]

This is a plan to close Ridgeview or Lakelands MS.

If you look at the Superintendent’s recommendation, it creates a situation in which all of the MSs are in the desired capacity range except Ridgeview and Lakelands which are both around 50% capacity. The projections for the 2029-30 school year of enrollment of Ridgeview + Lakelands = almost exactly 100% capacity at the Lakelands Park building.

This is[b] Taylor’s plan for finding money for other initiatives, maintenance, etc. Close SSIMS and Ridgeview.  Take the old Wootton building out of the running for construction and maintenance dollars. [/b]

I don’t know what ESs may be on the chopping block but it sure looks like Ridgeview is - with those kids getting moved to Lakelands Park. [/quote]

At least SSIMS was honestly designated a closure.  Closure is a process and MCPS is an LEA, local education authority, in a, SEA, state education authority.  Maryland has regulations on public school closures.  Part of that is where the LEA proposes to[b] relocate [/b]students from the closed schools.   This is the process on closure https://regulations.justia.com/states/maryland/title-13a/subtitle-02/chapter-13a-02-09/section-13a-02-09-01/

I posted about this issue previously.  Relocation is just part of the closure.  https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/garrett/Board.nsf/files/CPQLA554A890/$file/COMAR%2013A.02.09%20-%20Closing%20of%20Schools.pdf[/quote]

The end result of Wootton moving to Crown is a relocation; the entire student body of Wootton (with the boundary relocations) is moving to a completely new building. It's not merging into another school. The Save Wootton group will argue that it's a "de facto closure" or whatever, but it clearly meets the definition of a move rather than a closure. COMAR's probably a dead-end here.

Ridgeview, assuming it's closed and the student body is merged in with Lakelands Park, is clearly a closure, but will be part of the next round of boundary studies, which will include other closures (Cold Spring? DuFief? SSIMS?). Those will adhere to the MCPS policy for closures.[/quote]

Whatever.  Relocating can occur for closure, boundary changes, program location changes, and displacing students for construction/renovation of their geographically assigned school.  Call it holding school or swing space, means the same.    100% of students re-assigned from Wootton will not return to the Wootton building. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/how-schools-make-swing-spaces-feel-like-home/2025/08#:~:text=Jason%20Washington%2C%20the%20associate%20superintendent,space%20to%20the%20home%20school%3F[/quote]

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