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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More pre election fear mongering[/quote]

Major boundary changes aren’t necessarily bad.

Is the OP wrong on the facts?[/quote]

OP raises one interesting issue, which is that FCPS isn't very transparent when it adjusts the school capacities reported in the annual CIP. So if they bump up the stated capacity in the CIP, it lends itself to speculation that the numbers are being manipulated in order to justify a future boundary change.

But there just hasn't been much activity to change boundaries over the past 4 years (with an all-Democratic School Board); the more overtly political School Board members get, the less likely they are to do things that would engender noisy opposition; and the reference to Dr. Reid wanting to reconsider small "administrative" boundary changes doesn't seem like a big deal (Brabrand took the position back in 2018 that he wouldn't make "administrative" boundary changes because he wanted the School Board to own all boundary adjustments, but in practice that has just kept FCPS from making the types of small adjustments that used to be more routine).  [/quote]

Why would we assume that she wants the power to adjust boundaries to reinstate a small percentage (3 or 5 or whatever it was)?
Re-doing the policy means that in addition to restoring this power, the percentage that the superintendent can change without bothering the board can also increase.
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Dunno.  If I'm the superintendent, and generally responsible for the sound management of the school system, I'd like to reaffirm my ability to make small administrative boundary changes (changes that involve less than 5% of the enrollment at the sending/receiving school) without having to jump through all the hoops of an extended boundary study with public hearings, etc.

Brabrand tied his own hands back in 2018 and disclaimed any intention to make administrative boundary adjustments.  He thought that, if he didn't make any administrative changes, the School Board might then make county-wide changes, which it - and not Brabrand - would own.  But of course that never happened, so minor changes that could have assisted with overcrowding at schools like McLean HS and Glen Forest ES got delayed for years.  [/quote]

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