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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

That's a good question.  I don't think the MS Montessori program is very large right now, but perhaps it would grow if they brought it over to this site.  But I get the impression from the slides that any MS seats added through this process are already accounted for.  I think the 500 or 150 seat deficit is what this proposal leaves us with.  Again, no budget for the project at this point so the 1800 seat option might be unachievable.  Which would leave us with a 500 seat deficit for MS.

I'm also concerned with how they handle the two years of extreme MS overcrowding between 2024-26.  My own kids will be in middle school then.  That is a whole lot of trailers.  [b]Where are the creative solutions they implied they would be looking at to meet projected seat needs?[/b][/quote]

Um...that would be their virtual instruction model solution.  Create it and they will come (we hope).  Sorry, PP; but that's as creative as APS gets.[/quote]

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