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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C2RT7M7546E4/$file/F-1%20Supts%20Proposed%20FY%202022-2024%20CIP%20Presentation.pdf

All the money for secondary seats will go to building a new choice MS/HS at the Career Center.  And a new Montessori building on the site of the old CC (even though it's elementary and we don't urgently need ES seats).

Middle school seats continue to have a huge deficit.

Virtual school is envisioned as the answer to the capacity problems:

"[b]Virtual Learning May Impact Capacity Needs[/b]
•APS will have a virtual school for 2021-22
•A long-term virtual school will likely remain available for students who find it works better for them and their needs
•Virtual learning could reduce the needs for in-person seats, we will get a better sense of the impact over the next several years"[/quote]

So, are they relocating the Montessori MS seats from Gunston AND adding MS seats to Arl Tech? How many seats short are they then? [/quote]

For 2024-25 school year they are -531 seats; for 2025-26 they are -671.  No relief for those MS students is planned at all it seems.

If this CIP proposal is adopted with the 1300 seat plan for the choice MS/HS at the Career Center, APS will still be [b]short 500 seats for MS students[/b].

If the 1800 seat proposal is adopted [the CIP document released yesterday says nothing about projected costs], [b]APS will still be short 150 seats for MS students.[/b]

There is still no plan to build at Kenmore even though that campus is huge and under-utilized.

When APS chose to do a limited one-year plan last year, the SB directed staff to develop a CIP this year that meets all projected seat needs.  This proposal doesn't accomplish that.  From last year's CIP:

"The FY 2022 Four-to-Six-Year CIP will need to do the following:
• Meet the projected need for seats at all levels based on the Fall 2020 projections
• Potentially include additions, modifications, program moves, leased space, new construction, and/or other solutions that fit within the projected 10-year CIP funding"

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-08-26-CIP_Report_Complete.pdf[/quote]

Would they still be short those seats if the Montessori becomes K-8 in the repurposed CC building, thus freeing up space at Gunston from those who do Montessori there or kids who do ES Montessori but currently don't continue it into MS?[/quote]

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