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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county council has approved construction of a huge new apartment complex in our neighborhood, but our local ES is already over capacity with no new updates/improvements on the horizon. Do the council and MCPS talk to each other about this sort of thing? How do they approve these types of projects without having a plan on where the kids can go (besides adding portables which is not a solution). There doesn’t seem to be any thought as to the long term impacts to our schools……[/quote]

Portables ARE the permanent solution in MCPS. County council loves them and has been using them for 45 years. [b]Schools will always be overcrowded.[/b] The council loves the optics of looking like poor Montgomery county needs more money for its sad overcrowded schools. 
Overcrowded schools are needed to get the budget increased every year. MCPS is then free to waste as much money as they like.
Next year schools will still be overcrowded and MCPS will go back and cry for more money again.[/quote]

Many schools are undercrowded, but somehow we never talk about undercrowded schools on DCUM.[/quote]

They could redraw boundaries every few years like Howard County does, and it would address most of the overcrowding and save all the money they spend leasing 400+ portable classrooms. But there's no political will to deal with the inevitable complaints from parents.[/quote]

It would not address [i]most[/i] of the overcrowding. It would address [i]some[/i] of the overcrowding.

In fact, MCPS paid a consultant to look into this issue. Remember the boundary analysis, which some posters on DCUM kept trying to alarm and horrify everyone with?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/02b_Utilization.pdf[/quote]

Unfortunately the boundary analysis's numbers are no longer accurate. The data was already a year or two old even when the report came out. There have been building projects since, and more in progress now and about to start that will increase the overall capacity significantly.[/quote]

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